Election 2020 Fingal Constituency

RobFowl wrote: »

Aspiring Fingal TD Gemma O Doherty parked in a disabled bay in Balrothery tonight. Classy....]

Just had to 'Pop In' for a minute. How appropriate.

squawker wrote: »

was laughing at the poster today, looks like Daly is stalking him :pac:

The best line I saw on this was that she looks like his guardian angel

I will not be voting for FF or FG, would be a bit sickened if Darragh O'Brien tops the poll but at the same time, not surprised. A FF-led government would be atrocious for Fingal though.

Be interesting to see if James Reilly gets a boost from the hospital getting planning permission. I think any FG votes would be more likely to go to him than Farrell. Farrell is anonymous and ineffectual, along with the whole insurance thing.

sidcon wrote: »

The hospital is a private hospital built with private money nothing to do with Reilly he is piggybacking off it after his last promise never came to fruition

Of course, but he's got good association with it, whereas Farrell has what exactly?

The thing that pisses me off about the hospital is that Reilly unreservedly states that once built government should be forced to engage with and provide support/business to it.

If he's elected you can see him Lobbying hard on that and tbh it's pure shameful. I'd love the see population health projections that says we need a hospital in Swords and importantly how far up the priority list for funding something like that should be. I'd wager it would be considerably low on the list of priorities for funding.

As a Fingal resident I despair at the candidates on offer...

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Perhaps he means that there should be more engagement with private operators to alleviate the bed/trolley crisis. The HSE have a set rate that they offer to private operators but it is not economically viable to the private operator. The HSE would seem to prefer to spend multiple times that set rate keeping 'bed blockers' in large acute hospitals rather than offer a cent extra to the private sector.

A set rate for what?

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Nursing care in a private hospital/nursing home etc.

(Many of the patients taking up beds in acute hospitals do not need that level of care and could be catered for elsewhere freeing up badly needed acute beds.)

That's nursing homes. And long term care is funded by the NTPF. Short stay care for aimed at hospital egress is almost exclusively provided in private nursing homes, paid for by the HSE (tax payer) @ the same NTPF negotiated rates. The private sector gets circa half a billion euro per annum in this way.
So to be honest I don't know what you are talking about.

plodder wrote: »

FF seems to be the only major party not committed to the Swords Metro project. It's not mentioned in their manifesto which means you can be sure is the kiss of death.

What is FFs long standing issue with public transport?

Their only real interests seem to lie in building roads

PWEI wrote: »

Even though I said I'd never vote for Labour again after the last time they were in government, I was coming around to the idea of giving Duncan Smith a vote as I've heard a lot of positive things about him.

However Brendan Howlin soon put a stop to that when he ruled out going in to coalition with Sinn Fein on the leaders debate. I find that baffling as Labour are probably more ideologically aligned to Sinn Fein than FG or FF.

If you were watching the debate you know that the parties won't give sinn fein a go for reasons other than their primary policies. Including their governance and decision making processes and their position on non-jury courts.

Yeah, Swords not having its own TD maybe explains why nobody has been championing the Metro to the extent that they should. It's one of those things, that if it gets built the public won't know themselves, but in order to be built, people have to fight for it. The thing is that the Swords metro will benefit the whole surrounding region by taking thousands of cars off the roads, even in places where people won't use the Metro directly themselves. Other parts of the country that I know well wouldn't be as apathetic as this. I find it hard to understand.