Ireland politics (Part 2)

[iron_mike]

@Bod95

Lads we don’t realise how good we have it, the motorways in Spain last week are in dire need of repair, and outside the resort we were in heading to and from the airport a lot of houses in dire need of repair. Housing, health, cost of living issues are a global issue, FFG in the main have served us well no point risking everything by changing, steady as she goes.

Or to put it another way, the Brits are cutting pensioners fuel allowance in an effort to plug a 22 billion “black hole “ What they wouldn’t give for that kind of surplus

[TheUlteriorMotive]

@Arthur

Why are they giving everyone 1k each

They aren’t giving us anything. It’s our money that we’ve worked to earn.

What the health system in Ireland lacks is not money.

[Cheasty]

@Bod95

Lads we don’t realise how good we have it, the motorways in Spain last week are in dire need of repair

I’d happily give them our roads in exchange for their high speed rail system.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Climate change is hitting Spain hard.

[Arthur]

The special needs health and especially education system definitely lacks money.

[tallback]

@glasagusban

It’s absolutely remarkable the extent of the surpluses we are running and simultaneously the extent to which the government has failed to equip the state with the basic capacity and infrastructure to sustain the people in it.

I genuinely think there’s a massive civil service failure here too. The gov would love to and are able to deploy massive financial resources but know that there isn’t the capacity, capability or know-how for the civil service to turn that into tangible output .

Civil service seems to be excellent at writing policy docs etc but when it comes to actually boots on the ground infrastructure build it’s proven to be deficient at turning words into results.

[the_man_himself]

They are trying to solve housing mate whether you think they are doing a good job at it or not

[Realbhoy]

I have two questions really. How can the dept get the surplus forecast so badly wrong? To be out by literally tens of billions (allowing for grouping all the apple money in this years returns) is shocking. Also what has the fiscal advisory council to say? They are usually pretty level headed.

[glasagusban]

I would disagree. The failure is in policy. The housing crisis was widely predicted and FG did nothing to avert it, they doubled down on the policies that caused it and actively exacerbated it. The current crisis is a FG creation. Transport is belatedly being invested in because of the greens. Health in Ireland is a basket case but Donnelly now is beginning to introduce changes that will have positive impacts in the long term. All of these could have been acted on long before now but weren’t, these are policy failures.

@tallback

The gov would love to and are able to deploy massive financial resources but know that there isn’t the capacity, capability or know-how for the civil service to turn that into tangible output

I think this is nonsense and lets bad government off the hook. They could staff and equip local authorities to build things as they did before for example, but haven’t done so.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

ABP a massive road block too

Also, Luas was the only big transport project in the last 40 years as roads were king

[glasagusban]

And to nobodies surprise it was FG leading the charge against the Dublin city traffic plan. They actively opposed to change that will improve life for widest number of people in society.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Yeah, like im sure all their policies wouldnsay we have to improve public transport in Dublin but they were up in arms at the thought of a bus with 100 people in it having priority over a car with 1 person in it

Think one of their councillor’s called for removal of bollards at an accident black spot this week as it made it slightly more inconvenient for cagers, this is despite a person being killed on the exact stretch this year

[TheUlteriorMotive]

@Realbhoy

How can the dept get the surplus forecast so badly wrong?

Incompetent civil servants.

[balbec]

Sandbagging

[Batigol]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Think one of their councillor’s called for removal of bollards

In general someone needs to do something about the bollards in Dublin. A tourist can’t take a photo of anything there without ten bollards or warning signs coming into it.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Car brain alert

[Tim_Riggins]

@glasagusban

It’s absolutely remarkable the extent of the surpluses we are running and simultaneously the extent to which the government has failed to equip the state with the basic capacity and infrastructure to sustain the people in it.

This is your answer.

When presented with a list of options and asked which one they would like the Government to place emphasis on in the upcoming budget, exactly half (50 per cent) of poll respondents expressed a preference for a focus on immediate help with the cost of living. Next most popular was to increase spending on public services (24 per cent) and to reduce the amount of personal tax paid (16 per cent). Least popular was to save surplus resources to invest in the future (8 per cent).

[Tim_Riggins]

The structural issues are there but ask yourself why any Minister or Civil Servant would push major infrastructure projects when we get reactions like the Children’s Hospital?

[glasagusban]

Populism in action.

[Tim_Riggins]

The opposition went far beyond that.

Those who pushed to delay and amend it were;

A vote by councillors tonight could delay Dublin City Centre traffic plan by...

The only party that can be trusted are the Greens on issues of public transport and mobility.

On other things of practicality they aren’t so great but if you want PT you vote Green.