Limerick City General Election

Derbhoy

Frankie Daly FFS stick to Mayors Chains has no experience no use to Limerick in the Dail !

Cookiemunster

Derbhoy wrote: »

Frankie Daly FFS stick to Mayors Chains has no experience no use to Limerick in the Dail !

You know you don't have to vote for him don't you?

martyc5674

Derbhoy wrote: »

Frankie Daly FFS stick to Mayors Chains has no experience no use to Limerick in the Dail !

Genuine question: What has he ever achieved?

moby2101

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/politics/limerick-city-county-council-staff-16167483

Another poster put this up some time ago in the Limerick forum.
Anyone who considers voting for *Senator * Maria Byrne,please click on the link.
Usual self entitled BS we see from our political elite, shameless

s7ryf3925pivug

moby2101 wrote: »

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/politics/limerick-city-county-council-staff-16167483

Another poster put this up some time ago in the Limerick forum.

Usual BS , please take note

Yeah - sconegate. It was sconedalous.

damowill

Willie O' Dea must have a thousand posters up (or more) around the city!! He is everywhere! It seems he has significantly a lot more posters than any other candidate.

OfTheMarsWongs

damowill wrote: »

Willie O' Dea must have a thousand posters up (or more) around the city!! He is everywhere! It seems he has significantly a lot more posters than any other candidate.

Haven’t seen many on the north side. Maybe he’s targeting specific areas.

Mc Love

Derbhoy wrote: »

Frankie Daly FFS stick to Mayors Chains has no experience no use to Limerick in the Dail !

No use to anyone in the local area either as he hardly even attends the council meetings

s7ryf3925pivug

Mc Love wrote: »

No use to anyone in the local area either as he hardly even attends the council meetings

He's a sleeper member of the council apparently.

He's a chancer though, and chancers are popular in Ireland.

In meeting about closing a recycling centre: "Sorry I gotta go! I'm late for picking up my kid!"
Talking about the same meeting later: "Closing the centre is outrageous! I walked out!!"

(Hearsay paraphrased.)

LimerickCity

A HUNDRED YEARS OF FF & FG AND THEIR EXCUSES

Cookiemunster

LimerickCity wrote: »

A HUNDRED YEARS OF FF & FG AND THEIR EXCUSES

Yes, this country is such a sh1thole after 100 years of their various coalition governments :rolleyes:

Gael23

For anyone considering voting green
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/greens-say-proposed-cork-to-limerick-motorway-makes-no-sense-976006.html?fbclid=IwAR2ANwmxLomWmCxi3B-9vLsnR1Hdx2H3uI8syOGNSegx6Jz-W4K2_tgFOjc

osarusan

O Dea get in easily as usual, the rest is a toss up.

I think FF will struggle to get two in, unless they manage the vote really well. Quinlivan's star has faded a good bit.

Prendiville had 6700 votes last time, who will those go to? Labour? Soc dems? Greens?

s7ryf3925pivug

Gael23 wrote: »

For anyone considering voting green
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/greens-say-proposed-cork-to-limerick-motorway-makes-no-sense-976006.html?fbclid=IwAR2ANwmxLomWmCxi3B-9vLsnR1Hdx2H3uI8syOGNSegx6Jz-W4K2_tgFOjc

Yeah I was talking to someone about them yesterday. They are against a ring road that would improve access to areas like mine with zero public transport too.

They want to do away with ribbon development and create urbanized centers. So basically turn existing commuter villages into densely developed towns. This is more efficient in terms of providing services and infrastructure.

I dunno what my opinion is on this really. More to think about than most proposals.

LimerickCity

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Yes, this country is such a sh1thole after 100 years of their various coalition governments :rolleyes:

Their politics are basically the same. They may as well just join forces thus providing the country with a proper opposition party.

As it stands they control both government and opposition. As their policies are basically the same, nothing will ever change as has been proven over the past 100 years or so.

They now want us to finish work at 65 and go on the dole for a few years until we can collect our pensions at 68 which will be the highest in the world.

The French created chaos and forced Macron to back down and that government were trying to raise the pension age to 64.

We have a massive health and housing crisis, the current minister for housing is nowhere to be found since the election was called.

Over a million people waiting for hospital appointments/procedures. Record homelessness.

A locked out generation who will never afford their own home. Record rents.

Maurice McCabe, Frances Fitzgerald, James Reilly, Denis Naughton, Alan Shatter, Noreen O'Sullivan, Martin Callinan, Regina O'Doherty and the airport, what they did to Mick Wallace and Claire Daly just to name a few.

USC
Property Tax (plus 15% maximum being paid in Limerick voted in by FF/FG)
They wanted to bring in water charges

UHL is like something from North Korea

Multinational paying 1% tax while the average worker pays at least 20%, 40% on anything over 35k.

The working man/woman is and will continue to be rode under both of these parties.

Willie O'Dea will top the poll because he got someones aunt new windows or someones uncle a new front door. Most people vote for him based on the fact that he has done something for someone they know.

Not realizing that he and his party have done absolutely nothing positive for the country during the confidence and supply agreement.

He is a TD since 1982. What has he done for Limerick in the recent past?

s7ryf3925pivug

LimerickCity wrote: »

Their politics are basically the same. They may as well just join forces thus providing the country with a proper opposition party.

As it stands they control both government and opposition. As their policies are basically the same, nothing will ever change as has been proven over the past 100 years or so.

They now want us to finish work at 65 and go on the dole for a few years until we can collect our pensions at 68 which will be the highest in the world.

The French created chaos and forced Macron to back down and that government were trying to raise the pension age to 64.

We have a massive health and housing crisis, the current minister for housing is nowhere to be found since the election was called.

Over a million people waiting for hospital appointments/procedures. Record homelessness.

A locked out generation who will never afford their own home. Record rents.

Maurice McCabe, Frances Fitzgerald, James Reilly, Denis Naughton, Alan Shatter, Noreen O'Sullivan, Martin Callinan, Regina O'Doherty and the airport, what they did to Mick Wallace and Claire Daly just to name a few.

USC
Property Tax (plus 15% maximum being paid in Limerick voted in by FF/FG)
They wanted to bring in water charges

UHL is like something from North Korea

Multinational paying 1% tax while the average worker pays at least 20%, 40% on anything over 35k.

The working man/woman is and will continue to be rode under both of these parties.

Willie O'Dea will top the poll because he got someones aunt new windows or someones uncle a new front door. Most people vote for him based on the fact that he has done something for someone they know.

Not realizing that he and his party have done absolutely nothing positive for the country during the confidence and supply agreement.

He is a TD since 1982. What has he done for Limerick in the recent past?

I would describe it as socialism for the rich and for the idle poor. You can avoid paying income tax on large portions of your income if you can afford to put it into pension contributions. If you can't afford to do that then you have to pay 40% of it to the government.

FutureGuy

keane2097 wrote: »

I'll vote for whichever candidate puts transphobes in a gulag. Very disappointed this promise has been broken after the local elections.

Apologies if I hav missed something? What promises were broken and what have these "transphobes" been accused of?

Cookiemunster

Erin Squeaking Noblewoman wrote: »

I would describe it as socialism for the rich and for the idle poor. You can avoid paying income tax on large portions of your income if you can afford to put it into pension contributions. If you can't afford to do that then you have to pay 40% of it to the government.

You need to look up the definition of socialism.

If there was no tax relief on pensions then people wouldn't save and there would be an even worse pension time bomb coming down the line.

And pension contributions are taken before tax meaning that your tax credits and the 20% tax band are applied to the remainder of your gross imcome up until you reach €35K. I would suggest that if you earn above €35k and therefore pay 40% on the remainder of your income that you can afford pension contributions.

s7ryf3925pivug

Cookiemunster wrote: »

You need to look up the definition of socialism.

If there was no tax relief on pensions then people wouldn't save and there would be an even worse pension time bomb coming down the line.

And pension contributions are taken before tax meaning that your tax credits and the 20% tax band are applied to the remainder of your gross imcome up until you reach €35K. I would suggest that if you earn above €35k and therefore pay 40% on the remainder of your income that you can afford pension contributions.

Nope not if you're a sole breadwinner and you get penalised for it. [For example, sole breadwinner on a 70k salary pays more tax than two workers on 35k each. That is something that is unconstitutional because it is written into our constitution that stay at home mothers should be supported by the state. That itself is something they wanted to change under the guise of feminism.]

It is only one of many examples of socialism for the rich anyway. The ridiculous corporate tax rates have already been mentioned. Businesses can also avail of all sorts of grants and funding from the state. Business owners pay less tax on profits even outside of corporation tax. The approach to tackling climate change is to subsidise people who can afford to spend about 100k on retrofitting their house and tax everyone else on day to day expenses.... It goes on and on.

In the 1950s a typical sole breadwinner family would have enough to own a suitable house and live comfortably. Since then we have made huge progress in terms of production and automation. So people should have more not less. But most of us don't. Wealth has become more concentrated among the extremely rich at the expense of the normal worker.

People need to get out of the mindset that the state of the stock market is the be all and end all of the state of society. It isn't. There are plenty of resources to go around. Don't buy into the idea that making super rich people even richer is the best way for everyone else to have enough money.

Townie_P

The upcoming election for me in a nutshell:

Useless but better than the rest
Fine Gael
Fianna Fáil

Wildcard
Sinn Féin

Clueless/Don't know their arse from their elbow
Labour Party
Green Party

Fruitcakes & Chancers
Social Democrats
Independent - Frankie Daly
National Party
Aontú

keane2097

Erin Squeaking Noblewoman wrote: »

Nope not if you're a sole breadwinner and you get penalised for it. [For example, sole breadwinner on a 70k salary pays more tax than two workers on 35k each. That is something that is unconstitutional because it is written into our constitution that stay at home mothers should be supported by the state. That itself is something they wanted to change under the guise of feminism.]

If you are the sole breadwinner for a family then you are entitled to the tax credits not claimed by your husband or wife. If you are the 'sole breadwinner' for yourself and you think you can't afford pension contributions in Limerick on 70k you're probably doing something wrong.

s7ryf3925pivug

keane2097 wrote: »

If you are the sole breadwinner for a family then you are entitled to the tax credits not claimed by your husband or wife. If you are the 'sole breadwinner' for yourself and you think you can't afford pension contributions in Limerick on 70k you're probably doing something wrong.

I am sole breadwinner for my family and I don't get all my wife's tax credits. Not all of them are transferrable. If I remember correctly we're down 3k a year compared to a couple who both work for the same total gross salary.

keane2097

Erin Squeaking Noblewoman wrote: »

I am sole breadwinner for my family and I don't get all my wife's tax credits. Not all of them are transferrable. If I remember correctly we're down 3k a year compared to a couple who both work for the same total gross salary.

You might pay more than two married people who both work, but I imagine when you factor in costs of working you are probably miles ahead again. Commuting costs and childcare alone.

In any case I don't have any great issue with two working married people on half your wage each getting better tax treatment than one working and one non-working on the same total income.

keane2097

Slightly out of date but don't think it's changed too much



https://www.irishtimes.com/business/personal-finance/stay-at-home-parents-face-taxing-decision-on-return-to-work-1.2978025

mdmix

Erin Squeaking Noblewoman wrote: »

If you have a problem you can meet him in the pub and he will give advice or direct assistance or direct someone else to advise you as appropriate. He is extremely proactive and helpful.

Ya, he’s kind of like citizens advice, except he is extremely well paid and spends most of his time in the pub!

s7ryf3925pivug

mdmix wrote: »

Ya, he’s kind of like citizens advice, except he is extremely well paid and spends most of his time in the pub!

Well connected and with lots of clout too. He must have a lot of power really if you think of the number of people who might feel they owe him a favour, or at least have a lot of goodwill towards him. Shame his political positions are a bit sh!t.

Toodles_27

Erin Squeaking Noblewoman wrote: »

Well connected and with lots of clout too. He must have a lot of power really if you think of the number of people who might feel they owe him a favour, or at least have a lot of goodwill towards him. Shame his political positions are a bit sh!t.

Willie O Dea will get my vote. He has helped me out with various issues over the last 10 years. Met with and helped our neighbourhood watch committee with Kieran O Hanlon when we were under siege from a “minority” faction of society who were terrorising our area. Followed up in person and replied immediately to emails. Jan O Sullivan, Niall Collins and the SF councillor didn’t even acknowledge any request for assistance. That’s why Willie will get my vote. It’s a shame he is party to Fianna Fáil but he’s 100% better than the rest in Limerick.
Other than that, I don’t know who to vote for. Something has to be done about UHL and Homelessness but who or what party has the cahones to do it??? Genuine question if anyone has the answer.

s7ryf3925pivug

Toodles_27 wrote: »

Willie O Dea will get my vote. He has helped me out with various issues over the last 10 years. Met with and helped our neighbourhood watch committee with Kieran O Hanlon when we were under siege from a “minority” faction of society who were terrorising our area. Followed up in person and replied immediately to emails. Jan O Sullivan, Niall Collins and the SF councillor didn’t even acknowledge any request for assistance. That’s why Willie will get my vote. It’s a shame he is party to Fianna Fáil but he’s 100% better than the rest in Limerick.
Other than that, I don’t know who to vote for. Something has to be done about UHL and Homelessness but who or what party has the cahones to do it??? Genuine question if anyone has the answer.

Jenny Blake was involved in some way with the protests against the American military using Shannon airport. That gives some sort of credibility, I guess, when it comes to having the courage of her convictions.

I understand that Jan O'Sullivan has been involved in a community organisation that I'm aware of that is trying to improve mental health services in the area.

So unless some of the others have done things I'm not aware of, those two would seem like the best bets.

Comhrá

After voting FG for years, mainly just because my parents always did, more than

out of any idealogical convictions, I have decided not to give them any vote this

time, mainly on account of the state of UHL. I'll probably give Jan O'Sullivan my

no. 1 and I'll have to think about subsequent preferences.

somespud

What would be of concern to me is who ever forms the next government who of all the candidates from Limerick or the midwest region would likely make it to the cabinet table.