FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3 - Threadbanned User List in OP

Only just 1 years and 10 months to see what the public actually want. Maybe they can change your mind as a floating voter in that time.

Galway politicians produce 600,000 items at Oireachts print facility – Connacht Tribune – Galway City Tribune:

This kind of nonsense boils my blood.

Galway politicians used the Oireachtas print facility to produce more than 600,000 items of material to communicate with constituents over the past two years.

The items are produced and printed free of charge for senators and TDs but they cost the Houses of the Oireachtas in excess of €15,000 in 2020 and 2021.

The outlay does not include the cost of printing staff including graphic designers who designed the material.

Customised promotional material that was printed for local TDs and Senators included greeting cards, Christmas cards, business cards, letterheads, compliment slips, Oireachtas-headed paper, newsletters and leaflets.

Independent Senator Rónán Mullen, from Ahascragh, had some 246,900 items printed costing €4,237. That included 900 Christmas cards, 116,000 newsletters and 140,000 A4 colour printed letterheads.

Galway West TD, Hildegarde Naughton (FG) had material worth €3,632 printed since she was promoted to Minister of State at the Department of Transport attending Cabinet. Minister Naughton printed 145,000 items including 47,000 A4 colour newsletters.

Galway politicians used the Oireachtas print facility to produce more than 600,000 items of material to communicate with constituents over the past two years.

The items are produced and printed free of charge for senators and TDs but they cost the Houses of the Oireachtas in excess of €15,000 in 2020 and 2021.

The outlay does not include the cost of printing staff including graphic designers who designed the material.

Customised promotional material that was printed for local TDs and Senators included greeting cards, Christmas cards, business cards, letterheads, compliment slips, Oireachtas-headed paper, newsletters and leaflets.

Independent Senator Rónán Mullen, from Ahascragh, had some 246,900 items printed costing €4,237. That included 900 Christmas cards, 116,000 newsletters and 140,000 A4 colour printed letterheads.

Galway West TD, Hildegarde Naughton (FG) had material worth €3,632 printed since she was promoted to Minister of State at the Department of Transport attending Cabinet. Minister Naughton printed 145,000 items including 47,000 A4 colour newsletters.

Galway East TD, Anne Rabbitte (FF) Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for Disability had some 46,500 items printed at a cost of €1,345. Among the printed material were 500 greeting cards and 21,000 A4 colour newsletters.

Former Government chief whip and former Galway West TD, Senator Seán Kyne (FG) had material printed that cost €878. It included 2,000 compliment slips and 2,000 Oireachtas headed paper.

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It should not be allowed. Complete waste of money. Let them pay for the waste themselves. I got Kyne's BS newsletter and it went straight in the bin. As for Senator Mullen, let Rome pay for his garbage.

And my point is that FG will have to decide before that - before Varadkar becomes Taoiseach again. Everyone's opinion here is 'irrelevant'. Pretty lame putdown TBH.

I'd say (probably more of a hope tbh) it will take a lot closer to 10 years to change most floating voters to ever vote FG again. I definitely can't imagine it would be in the next 2 years.

I honestly think FG are completely blind or could not care less to how big a dislike there is out there for them. It's going to be a tough road back, and it's going to get worse when nothing is changing/ everything staying the same.

I see you are selectively only remmebering some of what I have said.

My goal is to end the toxic power swap we have had here for 100 years. I won't be floating in FG waters for a long long time nor FF's.

The Greens got a preference from me last time but unlikely the next time out.

To my eternal shame I decided to trust FG again. I'll never forgive myself they completely abused my trust.

I feel your pain. I voted FG for 20+ years right up until 2011. Never ever again. The New Politics lie sunk me. Catherine Connolly got my #1 in 2016 and 2020 and she has been a brilliant TD. One of the best in the Dail. I gave my #2 to the Social Democrat candidate but unfortunately he did not get in.

Again, that is all just regurgitation. I can read that in a newspaper or press release on the Oireachtas website. The only thing original in your post is invective directed at me. As I said already, you can read about my criticism of the Councils in plenty of threads.

Still waiting on a government thread, to hear your view on the government's failure to act on promises made by Jan O'Sulivan and Phil Hogan.

The buck very much stops with the government on reform here.

That is why the election campaign will be so fascinating in this new era of utterly butterly merger/I can't believe civil war politics is over.

They will be asked if they will coalesce with one another again, and what do they say? How do you offer something different while saying you will just do what you did before?

Fascinating really.

Well that is a lie, given you have been pounding the SF drum since 2010 on this site... :)

No lie. Do you want me to show you YET AGAIN where I posted in 2011 what SF would have to do to get me and others to vote for them?

I have defended SF on issues related to the conflict/war because of the partitionist and Unionist narratives presented here but I did not vote for them in a GE until the last one.

No issue saying who I voted for in the past - I would be more ashamed to say I voted FG but the sad truth is I did vote for them.