>There are no promises to achieve anything in the first 100 days of office, unlike programme for government documents of the past.
> THE 162-PAGE programme for government published yesterday is a roadmap for the next five years, but there are already criticisms that it is too vague.
>The word ‘continue’ is in the document 249 times, ‘explore’ is in there 34 times, ‘review’ is mentioned 126 times, ‘examine’ is contained in the document 86 times while ‘consider’ is mentioned 56 and ‘assess’ 27 times. The firm statement of “the government will” is only in there 23 times
This is a nothing programme for government aimed at keeping FFG ticking over. Please contact your local TDs to express your concern about the next 5 years. We need real focus in terms of health, housing and infrastructure.
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fork found in kitchen
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Theobane on
So basically a caretaker government but just missing the “care”
Specialist-Flow3015 on
On the bright side, nearly every single person of that neoliberal idealogy will be sitting on the Government side of the Dail and will have to accept responsibility for the way things are.
They won’t have Labour or the Greens to blame for unpopular decisions, or any other excuses for not being able to govern as they see fit, nor will they be able to play off each other as any kind of alternative in the future.
Ireland has always been corrupt (or cute hoorism if you take a light-hearted view of it) but between Verona Murphy getting the CC job and the frankly farcical amounts of super junior senior executive assistant ministers of state on 200k a year, even people I know who didn’t vote and pay no attention to politics are annoyed about it.
This government might have a working majority of 10-12 TDs but it’s so self-serving and unambitious in fixing Ireland’s problems. I’m not sure it will last the five years.
calcarin on
All that new energy
fitz177 on
Why would they , there in now , just the usual shite, just potter around for a few years and enjoy the perks , nothing new here
DonaldsMushroom on
so it’s more of ‘take money from Global Corporations’ and ‘dole it out to friends and accomplices’
Furyio on
With the way voting has gone I’m not surprised. Nobody has a mandate from the people to do anything significant.
So it’s just more ticking over for another X years
No-Gas-5383 on
another 5 years of this shite, will we ever see any change?
ShroudedHope on
This is what happens when we, the people, don’t vote for other parties or candidates en masse. The status quo won’t change, because FFG know they’ll always be safe, so they don’t even need the pretense of caring and trying anymore.
marks-ireland on
Martin did say we’d get a Metro “in the fullness of time”. What more do you want?
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>There are no promises to achieve anything in the first 100 days of office, unlike programme for government documents of the past.
> THE 162-PAGE programme for government published yesterday is a roadmap for the next five years, but there are already criticisms that it is too vague.
>The word ‘continue’ is in the document 249 times, ‘explore’ is in there 34 times, ‘review’ is mentioned 126 times, ‘examine’ is contained in the document 86 times while ‘consider’ is mentioned 56 and ‘assess’ 27 times. The firm statement of “the government will” is only in there 23 times
This is a nothing programme for government aimed at keeping FFG ticking over. Please contact your local TDs to express your concern about the next 5 years. We need real focus in terms of health, housing and infrastructure.
fork found in kitchen

So basically a caretaker government but just missing the “care”
On the bright side, nearly every single person of that neoliberal idealogy will be sitting on the Government side of the Dail and will have to accept responsibility for the way things are.
They won’t have Labour or the Greens to blame for unpopular decisions, or any other excuses for not being able to govern as they see fit, nor will they be able to play off each other as any kind of alternative in the future.
Ireland has always been corrupt (or cute hoorism if you take a light-hearted view of it) but between Verona Murphy getting the CC job and the frankly farcical amounts of super junior senior executive assistant ministers of state on 200k a year, even people I know who didn’t vote and pay no attention to politics are annoyed about it.
This government might have a working majority of 10-12 TDs but it’s so self-serving and unambitious in fixing Ireland’s problems. I’m not sure it will last the five years.
All that new energy
Why would they , there in now , just the usual shite, just potter around for a few years and enjoy the perks , nothing new here
so it’s more of ‘take money from Global Corporations’ and ‘dole it out to friends and accomplices’
With the way voting has gone I’m not surprised. Nobody has a mandate from the people to do anything significant.
So it’s just more ticking over for another X years
another 5 years of this shite, will we ever see any change?
This is what happens when we, the people, don’t vote for other parties or candidates en masse. The status quo won’t change, because FFG know they’ll always be safe, so they don’t even need the pretense of caring and trying anymore.
Martin did say we’d get a Metro “in the fullness of time”. What more do you want?
Dippin and divin….
Joke of a coalition
Well, didn’t you all vote for this?