Room to Improve (v2)

If the info is there for all architects, why did Bannon need a briefing.

Please leave me out of that "we all".

Thanks.

Me too.

Politics using TV to get their message our is pretty much the norm across the world.

The majority of it is the most stupid pointless rubbish you’d ever see. Constant repetition presented as fact.

This is for the politics or CA forum.

But go on, what data have you got on the grants dispersal or is this someone who you met in the pub told you this?

The 'message' seems obvious to me anyway - look what you can do with government grants.

The insinuation/allegation you are making is: Bannon and RTE had a meeting with the Dept., the Dept then got on to Tipperary CoCo and told them and their officials to hand out 100,000 to a couple who did not qualify for it.

Then RTE Bannon and the Dept told the media about this 'meeting' then RTE broadcast a programme where the corruption was SO evident MOST people spotted it.

That about it?

Seems to me Furze that after a week there seems to be only one group 'dying' - the conspiracy theorists. No traction at all from what I can see and I am long enough in the tooth to know how these things normally work.

Yes we do know.

If you think something else happened that is an allegation and a theory. Some would say...a conspiracy theory

How do we know this?

And how does it impinge on other cases? Each case is different/.

So you are alleging that something else happened at this meeting.

We do know because both Bannon and the dept have said what it was about.

If you don't accept that explanation then you are alleging that something else went on at the meeting.

At least be honest about what you are saying as another poster was.

What Bannon and his QS should know or not know is immaterial tbh.

Could Francie and Francis start a separate tread (or just private message) where ye can just go over and back all day long repeating everything to each other constantly and leave the rest of us out of it.

I admire people who can admit they are not expert or have a full grasp of the detail.

As said previously, Bannon's status and show was beneficial to a Dept wanting to get the existence of grants (which have not, by your own admission been taken up as they should) out there.

Promoting the grants and demonstrating what can be done with them (an advertised feature of this season) was the focus of the series. So being on top of the detail was beneficial to RTE and Bannon. Believing that you could get two grants (First Time Buyers and Vacancy) could easily have been cut out of the show but Bannon does seem to have little problem with showing the mistakes he makes and the fact that he is fallible like us all.

Francis, your third paragraph, I cannot believe it. If the presentation’s’ main/major focus was the highlighting of grants available, well he made a right ‘dog’s dinner’ of it and the whole thing was very misleading re the derilect not lived in for two years element

. And being falable in he dealing with the core elements of the prog - mainly budget, grants available and grant conditions to be met. Come on. Are these not very much part of the bread and butter of his trade and in relation to the nature of the prog he is presenting? Do’nt tell me that RTE has, indirectly, another Ryan Tubridy type on it ‘s books