Say one positive thing about the government

Brussels Sprout · 10-09-2010 06:06PM #1

I didn't vote for the government parties and I'm certainly not a supporter of theirs for many many reasons. However, reading all of these negative threads is getting a bit depressing. So in this thread say 1 thing that various FF led governments since 1997 have done that you approve of.

I'll get the ball rolling by saying the introduction of the smoking ban.

10-09-2010 06:10PM

\Sits and waits for the hive of activity this thread will be....

:pac:

MrStuffins · 10-09-2010 06:11PM

ninty9er · 10-09-2010 06:29PM

M1/ M3/ M6/ M7/ M8/ M9. Luas, DART expansion. And before the pedants get in, I am aware that SOME of the money for SOME of those projects came from PPP and ESF.

Zambia · 10-09-2010 06:31PM

Plastic bag charge.

Einhard · 10-09-2010 06:35PM

Smoking ban.

MrStuffins · 10-09-2010 06:36PM

Plastic bag ban!

bladespin · 10-09-2010 06:37PM

Plastic bag tax.

I would say the motorway network but of course it only gets delivered when the need is gone

Mr.Micro · 10-09-2010 06:41PM

Stopping the EU from endorsing Israel in handling of EU citizens data.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0902/israel.html

Lenny Lovett · 10-09-2010 06:49PM

They've only got another twenty months max left in power.... Is that positive enough?

Keith186 · 10-09-2010 06:54PM

Reduce excise duty on beer in the last budget. Now many a six pack is usually now a tenner.

exaisle · 10-09-2010 07:01PM

They'll be gone soon.

PeterIanStaker · 10-09-2010 07:03PM

Its easy to avoid their propaganda, as its in a newspaper with a distinctive purple top that only comes out on Sunday?

mikom · 10-09-2010 07:07PM

They're great liars.

OS119 · 10-09-2010 07:14PM

they'll make a superb dance floor.

drBill · 10-09-2010 07:16PM

Lenny Lovett wrote: »

They've only got another twenty months max left in power.... Is that positive enough?

Damn, beaten to it!

Mr.Micro · 10-09-2010 07:20PM

Posters are struggling to find anything positive.....not surprising because there is very little.

super_furry · 10-09-2010 07:20PM

The bike to work scheme is a great initiative.

Now if only we had work.

OS119 · 10-09-2010 07:29PM

Mr.Micro wrote: »

Posters are struggling to find anything positive.....not surprising because there is very little.

actually i think they'll have a very positive effect on the future of Ireland - in 40 years they'll be the bogeyman of corruption and incompetence that parents will frighten their children with whenever those children say 'i'm not interested in politics...'

skearon · 10-09-2010 07:31PM

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

I didn't vote for the government parties and I'm certainly not a supporter of theirs for many many reasons. However, reading all of these negative threads is getting a bit depressing. So in this thread say 1 thing that various FF led governments since 1997 have done that you approve of.

I'll get the ball rolling by saying the introduction of the smoking ban.

Good Friday Agreement

skearon · 10-09-2010 07:32PM

Mr.Micro wrote: »

Posters are struggling to find anything positive.....not surprising because there is very little.

Poster asked for one item each, not a list

maynooth_rules · 10-09-2010 07:38PM

Mary Hanafin. Always liked her and she strikes me as a hard working , competent, diligent woman who is a shining light in a bucket full of ****. Everything else about Fianna Fail repulses me. Everything about the Green party for the past 3 years repulses me(and i voted for them).

round tower huntsman · 10-09-2010 07:41PM

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

I didn't vote for the government parties and I'm certainly not a supporter of theirs for many many reasons. However, reading all of these negative threads is getting a bit depressing. So in this thread say 1 thing that various FF led governments since 1997 have done that you approve of.

I'll get the ball rolling by saying the introduction of the smoking ban.

eh.....................eh.......................eh.............................. they've,and especially biffo, have kept diagio in business.

goose2005 · 10-09-2010 10:54PM

maynooth_rules wrote: »

Mary Hanafin. Always liked her and she strikes me as a hard working , competent, diligent woman who is a shining light in a bucket full of ****. Everything else about Fianna Fail repulses me. Everything about the Green party for the past 3 years repulses me(and i voted for them).

She certainly appears a lot more competent than the rest, but she's still classic FF - her father and brother were Senators, she was a schoolteacher before election. Add to that her time in the DES, when she scrapped school league tables, didn't look at school bus safety till 5 girls died.

goose2005 · 10-09-2010 10:55PM

ninty9er wrote: »

M1/ M3/ M6/ M7/ M8/ M9. Luas, DART expansion. And before the pedants get in, I am aware that SOME of the money for SOME of those projects came from PPP and ESF.

M9 not necessary, Luas went way over budget and lines don't meet.

Keith186 wrote: »

Reduce excise duty on beer in the last budget. Now many a six pack is usually now a tenner.

That's to make you too pissed to FITE DA POWA

Ulysses Gaze · 10-09-2010 11:07PM

The one positive thing about this Government, particularly FF, is that they've finally been exposed to the people of Ireland as the Shysters they've always been - no ideology - whatever you're having yourself.

Also been exposed for a lack of any real talent in their party. O'Cuiv? O'Dea? Frank Fahey? Conor Lenihan? Mary Coughlan? Batt O'Keefe? Mary 'Unfortunately our people are living longer' Hanafin? Dempsey? Laughable stuff.

Hopefully the Irish people now see that FF are a sham and that the party hijacked by the corrupt Haughey and his cadre of buffons is a cancer that needs to be expunged from politics in Ireland.

Hey, I can dream!

goat2 · 10-09-2010 11:07PM

worst unemployment in history, money for anglo, no money for jobs, stopping turfcutting, up with insurances

Cavehill Red · 10-09-2010 11:10PM

Something positive about the current government?

They'd make great targets for high-velocity rifles.

mikemac · 10-09-2010 11:12PM

Revenue online (ROS)

Works extremely well

If they're going to be hammered for e-voting and PPARS then credit where it's due for ROS

demonspawn · 10-09-2010 11:13PM

They haven't let the country sink into the Atlantic.....yet.

round tower huntsman · 10-09-2010 11:15PM

one positive thing about the government???
best thing ff/greens have done for ireland is destroy their parties for a generation(hopefully). when an election comes and people who havent opened their eyes finally do,then the damage will be seen clear as day and ff/greens wil be no more.

Say one positive thing about the government

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