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Tom "Parlon Country" Parlon now on Today FM

  • 12-09-2010 10:46AM
    #1
    baalthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭


    Getting a nice cushy interview from Sam Smyth ... must be the season for it

    Sam:"everyone recognises decentralisation is a good idea ..."

    In my opinion Parlon did far more than McDowell to help destroy the PDs.


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  • #2
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Proper, focussed, partial decentralisation is a good idea; even if it were only certain departments to the other cities; plus, of course, it would have required a proper broadband and communications infrastructure, which this country doesn't have.

    The half-assed version that FF & PDs cobbled together was a disaster, and only served to push up house prices around the country as people who sold small apartments for €600,000 had money to burn for buying their new place and it saw prices go even more out of control.

    Then again, looking at what's happened since, maybe that was the aim ?


  • #3
    donkey balls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭donkey balls


    ah poor aul tom parlon who once said to matt cooper that his ministerial pension was not that much:rolleyes: roughley about 40/45k a year yet he wants people in the construction industry to take pay cuts whats new.


  • #4
    bmaxi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭bmaxi


    donkey balls wrote: »
    ah poor aul tom parlon who once said to matt cooper that his ministerial pension was not that much:rolleyes: roughley about 40/45k a year yet he wants people in the construction industry to take pay cuts whats new.

    What with that and his €250k+ from the CIF I'm surprised the man can get by at all.
    Has he ever been good for anything except promoting himself?


  • #5
    Essexboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Essexboy


    bmaxi wrote: »
    What with that and his €250k+ from the CIF I'm surprised the man can get by at all.
    Has he ever been good for anything except promoting himself?

    Has he ever been good for anything except promoting himself?
    Why else did he go into politics? ;)


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