What have the government done right?

While we might seem to score well in international rankings for safety,crime education and healthcare on the ground from my perspective it doesnt feel like that.

I wont even go into Dublin city centre anymore as it doesnt feel safe and Ive seen enough **** on the nights that I did go in to put me off it for the forseeable future.

Crime seems to be rampant with our supposed protectors getting their cars rammed while crowds of scum cheer them on. Garda are regularly assaulted on the job. Theres something gone fundamentally wrong with teens and young adults behaviour over the last few years and its become quite noticeable - they seem to have lost respect for their peers completely and really dont care about other people. We have criminals with multiple hundreds of convictions still walking the the streets with no fear of the repercussions of their actions. The ordinary on the beat Garda needs more supports or even everyone of them to be armed with non-lethal weapons like tazers, stun guns, pepper spray and not have to go through a tribunal when they use it against scum that deserved it.

Healthcare - dont get me started - my daughter was waiting for 5 years for a spinal operation (scoliosis) so much so that a 2 hour op in the beginning ended up being 18 hours when eventually she was seen to. You cant change GPs as they arent taking people on and if you are lucky to have a GP you wont get a same day appointment in most surgeries.. A+E is a disaster with multiple hour long waits if you have a minor accident. Our minister for health is the most useless person to have ever been elected - all he does is talk **** from one interview to another - covid really showed his through self when he signed a law on the 31st June!!!

Education is fucked aswell with a severe lack of teachers and the ones that are employed are untouchable if they dont carry out their jobs right - again covid sorted out the good from the bad - the good ones kept working through it and the bad ones did nothing. The whole teacher training needs to be revamped and allow people that want to become teachers have a quicker access to becoming a teacher - my daughter has her primary degree and a masters and yet still needs to do another 2 years to become a teacher...thats nuts.

My own local Tds bar the independents are completely and utter morons - BTW I was always a Fg voter since I could could first vote. I contacted one of them during covid when the N4 was taking 2 hours to travel from Palmerstown to Maynooth and asked could the checkpoints not be moved to the skip roads and his response - stay in work later like I do and you`ll miss all the traffic. Same TD was contacted about the greyhound bodies that were discovered in Newbridge a few months back and again deflected and washed his hands of it saying it was a Garda issue when my question was regarding stopping funding for the industry - didnt even answer the question I asked of him.

One local FG TD was very helpful in trying to get my daughters surgery sorted - not sorted but the issue raised with the Minister for health whose office sent basically a please **** off response.

The independent was extremely helpful with different issues in the past and never once did not respond to any emails I sent her - the others - some of them never even bothered with a response.

So to answer the OPs question what they have done right - in my opinion - absolutely nothing for the ordinary citizen who they are supposed to be representing.

Maybe Im getting grumpy as I get older or maybe Im just going to start calling out all these TDs for the lack of representing that they do for their constituents. Roll on the next General Election.

I think I just needed a rant!!!

It is hard to listen to the government telling us what theyve done right but when you actually need the assistance of some state bodies you dont see the whole "we`re great" thing that they keep feeding us with.

I even offered to remortgage the house to get my daughter the treatment she needed privately but like that there was no surgeon to do the OP privately here in Ireland as they are contracted to the HSE who cant do the OP in time. Went around in circles for years trying to sort it out - the only thing is she got her OP and is recovering well as it was a complete success.

When you do actually get into the system its fantastic but that little delay trying to get into the system is where it all falls flat.