Alan Shatter in the Dail, 2009:
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote] <p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:‘Times New Roman’, Times, serif;font-size:21px;]Does the Taoiseach intend to introduce legislation in the new year to amend the redress board legislation to extend it to those who suffered barbaric cruelty in the Magdalen laundries?</span>[/quote]</p>They intend to pay “not another cent”, I think.
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]“It is morally wrong, unjust and unfair to tax a persons home”[/FONT][/SIZE]
Came across a name recently, Colm MacEochaidh, that I knew I knew. Anyway I looked him up and then recalled him running in an election some years ago for Fine Gael.
He was appointed a high court judge in 2012 by the government… I thought these tards said they were ending political favour and cronyism? :rolleyes:
Of course, he could be the best man for the job…we’ll never really know though will we?
Incredible scenes
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/528184_10151567398171253_1259659040_n.jpg
[quote=“Sidney, post: 760793, member: 183”]Incredible scenes
its an incredibly shit book, even worse than his previous book, shatter’s family law
This is an absolute clamping:
http://www.gazettegroup.com/news/principal-blasts-keating-leaflet/
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A LOCAL principal has slammed a leaflet distributed by a local TD as “gross cynical opportunism”.
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[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]Residents in Lucan South last week received a leaflet from Fine Gael TD Derek Keating that outlined what he has “delivered” for the people of Lucan.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]Amongst the list was news of a school expansion at Griffeen Valley Educate Together – an inclusion that has angered that school’s principal, Tomas O’Dulaing.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]In an open letter to Deputy Keating, O’Dulaing said that he had not assisted in the expansion plans whatsoever.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]“You never once contacted our school, Griffeen Valley, in relation to our forthcoming school extension,” says O’Dulaing’s letter.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]“Neither did anybody from our board of management or staff contact you or seek your assistance in relation to the extension. You had absolutely nothing to do with this development, and yet you distribute a leaflet in the Lucan area claiming to have ‘initiated, led and delivered’ this extension.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]“This is nothing but gross cynical opportunism on your behalf, which I find objectionable and depressing.”[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]O’Dulaing added that Deputy Keating had attended a meeting at the school, where he met special needs students and their parents.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]“In the last two years [since Fine Gael and Labour came to power] our school has lost four and a half Special Needs Assistants for these vulnerable children, and has seen the allocation of one-to-one resource-teaching hours for these children reduced by 15%.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]“I recall, Derek, that you shook your head in shame when parents outlined to you the manner in which the devastating cuts you had voted for were having on the lives of their children. Neither the school, nor those parents, heard from you after that meeting.”[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]The letter adds that the school has lost three English-language teachers in the past two years.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]“Derek, these losses are two very tangible things that you have delivered for the children in our school and for our community in Lucan.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]“Can I respectfully remind you that you have voted for every single cutback that you and your colleagues in Fine Gael and Labour have put through [the Dail]?[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]“I am sure you would be interested to know the cumulative effect of those votes by you and your colleagues, and how those same votes have impacted upon the lives of people in our community.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]“At a broader, national level, you and your colleagues have delivered an increase of at least 40,000 children living in poverty in our country – something which is profoundly shameful. Derek, you have also delivered austerity in its billions [of euro] for ordinary people, with catastrophic effect.”[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]O’Dulaing, who is the chair of the Alliance against Cutbacks in Education, said that his own letter was not meant as a personal attack on Deputy Keating, but took aim at his leaflet.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]“Nothing in this open letter, Derek, is intended to question your integrity, or to attack you personally. I’m sure you believe in what you are doing in Leinster House.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]“However, I respectfully suggest that the ‘Derek is delivering’ leaflet is an example of the kind of political cynicism that seems to infect many of our politicians when they join the ranks of our political elite in Dail Eireann.”[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]Deputy Keating was contacted in relation to this matter and declined to comment.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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Fuck it that’s what politicians do. They get you a medical card/school/road sign.
They do in their shite.
[quote=“Bandage, post: 767599, member: 9”]This is an absolute clamping:
http://www.gazettegroup.com/news/principal-blasts-keating-leaflet/
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in a somewhat bizarre follow up to this story
[quote=“artfoley, post: 769220, member: 179”]in a somewhat bizarre follow up to this story
Fucking hell-what a pair of cunts.
Fine Gael have been faced down by the beards and have rowed back on their contention that €300m in payroll savings was an absolute minimum requirement for 2013. They now claim this figure was a “target” and an “ambition”.
Fine Gael cronyism at work in appointing some chap to the Seanad. The kind of stroke they keep pulling despite railing against Fianna Fáil doing it when they were in power. Cat got your tongue, @Young Ned of the Hill?
The Fine Gael Seanad nominee John McNulty has resigned from the board of IMMA with immediate effect. Not sure what that means for the Seanad position as yet. This controversy isn’t going away though with one of the ladies overlooked for the nomination resigning from the party this morning and backbench TD John Deasy laying into the Taoiseach on News at One.
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John Deasy puts the boot into Kenny ever other day. A chip of the old block. Austin Deasy was always at loggerheads with his party leader.[/QUOTE]
He has to resign from the board to continue his campaign for the Seanad. It is part of the rules and regulations of the IMMA board that you cant be a board member while contesting an election at the same time.
That McNulty has a real little glickeen Fine Gael head on him.
This Heather Humphries is some dummy. She nearly choked on the news there trying to spit out an answer.
Completely out of her depth. A crowd of half wits in the Seanad made shit of her yesterday.
Her qualifications to be Minister for Arts is that she can play a bit of piano.
