They are trying to solve housing mate whether you think they are doing a good job at it or not
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.
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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 werenât, these are policy failures.
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 havenât done so.
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ABP a massive road block too
Also, Luas was the only big transport project in the last 40 years as roads were king
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.
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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 councillorâs 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
Incompetent civil servants.
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Sandbagging
In general someone needs to do something about the bollards in Dublin. A tourist canât take a photo of anything there without ten bollards or warning signs coming into it.
Car brain alert
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).
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 Childrenâs Hospital?
Populism in action.
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The opposition went far beyond that.
Those who pushed to delay and amend it were;
The only party that can be trusted are the Greens on issues of public transport and mobility.
On other things of practicality they arenât so great but if you want PT you vote Green.
They had it with north sea oil and pissed it away wkth giveaway budgets. We need to do what the Norwegians did and set up an investment fund
Are you for real.So a minister wonât start a big infrastructure job because someone on twitter might be mean to them.
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Failure of most politicians, State bodies and civil servants to articulate projects imo.
Also our journalism corps are complicit with a dumbed down coverage of infrastructure that focuses on sensationalism.
That is why Shane Ross sat on transport projects for a few years.
He spent years in the Sindo lambasting âwasteâ. Why would he get himself entangled with it himself?
The best thing the Greens did was not tear up the plans that were there for transport like they had said they would. This was a mature decision.
They will likely be hammered at the polls by many of the same types who claim to want infrastructure and a future for selling out.
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Iâll go through some examples of dysfunction. Some of it is well meaning âdemocracyâ in action.
Reposting the above. It was not just parking lot owners who dumbed down the transport plans.
It was also disability groups.
This is an example of well meaning stuff that just delays and waters down projects. Any kind of change will impact an individual or groups. We give far too much credence to it.
The National Childrenâs Science Museum. A much needed museum for Dublin, something to bring children into the city for.
Proposed in the 1990s.
Back at planning again and recommended for approval by ABP in 2024.
Here we have a Prime Time piece covering it over the summer where air time is given to an actor and residents groups near Harcourt Street.
An unknown number of those are local residents who have no garden. People such as actress Pom Boyd, who, like others Prime Time spoke to, praises the way in which the OPW maintains the park.
For her, the park is âan oasisâ in the heart of a âvery busy, fast-growing city. There are very few places for people without gardens like me⌠to come and commune with nature to hear the birds,â she said.
Ms Boyd is worried that the removal of such a large section of the boundary wall will harm what she describes as a âvery delicately balanced Victorian garden.â The wall ââŚis one of the things that gives the Iveagh Gardens its character,â she said. She organised a petition which gathered over 46,900 signatures from people objecting to the plan and its impact on the Gardens.
They are proposing to knock down a wall for it.
The Iveagh Gardens is basically the secret garden of Dublin. It isnât particularly well known in comparison to St Stephens Green or Merrion Square. Thatâs why it is an âoasisâ, the plebs donât go in.
A Childrenâs Museum would mean more people would know about it and the oasis would be threatened.
What politician decided to go and support the petition? Only Chris Andrews from a party claiming to be for the little people but backing a group of well heeled locals for votes.
And he is backed by our so called future Taoiseach.
https://twitter.com/maryloumcdonald/status/1816735556388417572?s=46&t=hy6wc4bLZMiyfotc20UniQ
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