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What do people want from their politicians?

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    #62
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,182 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    joeguevara wrote: »
    I think everyone would be happy if they learned how to use a swing without fcuking adult supervision.


    Now that is some kind of unrealistic utopia you are speaking of ..GET REAL DUDE


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    #63
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I want my politician to have 3 things on top of their list of priorities
    1. how do my constituency want me to act?
    2. how do my province want me to act?
    3. how do my country want me to act?

    and then on place 738
    738. what is best for me personally?


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    #64
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,077 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    biko wrote: »
    I want my politician to have 3 things on top of their list of priorities
    1. how do my constituency want me to act?
    2. how do my province want me to act?
    3. how do my country want me to act?

    and then on place 738
    738. what is best for me personally?

    Honestly 3 should be top. Number 2 shouldn't matter.


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    #65
    pjohnson
    Registered Users Posts: 23,764 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    biko wrote: »
    I want my politician to have 3 things on top of their list of priorities
    1. how do my constituency want me to act?
    2. how do my province want me to act?
    3. how do my country want me to act?

    and then on place 738
    738. what is best for me personally?
    You forgot immigration biko.


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    #66
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,086 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    nthclare wrote: »
    And stop taking a tenner off everyone every week every year with each and every budget since the current party took over.

    So more services but less tax? How's that going to work?


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    #67
    Hal3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Hal3000


    Can they listen to the electorate more and not their counterparts in the EU so much ? Varadkar seems to be only interested in Tusk et al and not bothered with what his own people think. Just because we are in the EU that doesn’t mean we completely ignore the needs of our own people and country, seems to be going that way.


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    #68
    Sheep breeder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,040 ✭✭✭Sheep breeder


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Many TD's take a significant pay cut when they become TD's?
    Large number of TD's are teachers by profession. MM teacher, Enda Kenny teacher, Michael Noonan teacher, Mary Mitchell O' Connor teacher. Lots more but you get the point. I may be wrong but does the teacher salary scale reach 100k plus expenses?
    I would of course be interested to know which TD's are captains of industry which through a selfless act of servitude made such a sacrifice to survive on the pittance our elected representatives are paid.

    Think I would rather have a TD wage and gravy and pensions.


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    #69
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,416 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    term limits 2 or 3 full terms max.

    I've had to get a td involved in the past.to get an issue with local property tax resolved basically people in revenue wouldn't do their job a week after a td phone call a problem I'd spent 3 months chasing was resolved.

    I think that's a lot of the reason people go to tds with local issues is because the state bodies cant seem to be bothered to resolve them
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    a bit of honesty from a good number wouldn't go amiss. turn up do your job don't claim when you're not there don't press other voting buttons

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    #70
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    dulpit wrote: »
    So more services but less tax? How's that going to work?

    Maybe take the tenner off the people who can take the hit, but sure that wouldn't be right would it ?


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    #71
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    pjohnson wrote: »
    You forgot immigration biko.
    Feel free to put it on your politician's list


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    #72
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Hal3000 wrote: »
    Can they listen to the electorate more and not their counterparts in the EU so much ? Varadkar seems to be only interested in Tusk et al and not bothered with what his own people think. Just because we are in the EU that doesn’t mean we completely ignore the needs of our own people and country, seems to be going that way.

    Because Varadkar wants a top job in Europe or the UN once he is finished his stint as Taoiseach.

    He won't be hanging around on the Opposition bench you can be sure of that.


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