Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

Do you agree with a leasehold model for housing?

Not generally. If defined for certain types of property and the leaseholder is not a private investor, I think it could work.

The idea of a left coalition is fantasy. In the first instance, PBP/RISE will never enter government. They exist to protest and pontificate, the idea of governing or compromising is anathema to them. Paul Murphy is one of the only TDs to criticise the Hate Speech bill, but realistically he would have no problem with the state using the law against those who disagree with them, he just knows he'll never ever be in government to exercise that power himself.

The on top of that, how could Sinn Féin and the Greens agree to govern when Sinn Féin oppose just about every environmental policy the government brings in? They'll always claim the environment is a top priority for them, but that the steps taken to reduce emissions, or protect wildlife shouldn't involve any effort or change on anyone's part. Sinn Féin aim for the "D4 bike riding Greens are out to kill real rural Ireland" vote; one of the their top TDs described the prospect of the Greens losing all their seats in the next election as the "best case scenario".

Then you've Labour, the SDs, Aontú who'll all have their own demands too.

But even if they'd overcame those issues and united all the parties other than FF and FG in a coalition, they'd have needed 13 Independents to get the slimmest possible majority. A majority which would always be on a knife edge and where all it'd take to collapse the government would be for a single disgruntled TD from any of the 10+ factions in the coalition to defect.

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Yes a political party which set out an agenda and then tries it's best as a small partner to deliver on that agenda, the agenda which people voted them in for

Of course you disrespect them 😂

Hilarious

Better off idolising a party of incompetence from top to bottom

then tries it's best 

Really? I'll let a former Green Party member explain it:

The Green Party over the last two decades is devoid of strong principled leadership, just at a time when it is really needed. There is an ethos of compromise and playing the game, whatever the politics of the day. There is an ideology that the Green Party can be all things to all people. A sense that the party is lucky if it can get into government, and no matter what main party is in the driving seat, we can tack on to it and get some of our policies adopted, like a sucker-fish alongside a great white shark. We are the ‘tack-on party’, never to be leaders, always the scapegoats for anti-green outrage and at the same time a supplier of the best stolen ideas.

They'll 'tack themselves on' to whosoever offers them comfortable seats. They'd have no dilemma entering a SF coalition in other words.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-im-leaving-green-party-conor-coady/

In my previous post I noted that the Greens won't be bothered by losing seats, because they have achieved real permanent change. Power doesn't matter to them if they can't achieve change.

Sinn Fein are the new Fianna Fail, the achievement of power is the objective, not the welfare of the people, not the future of the country. Each and every policy is up for changing if that is the populist way. From penal tax increases, to the Special Criminal Court, to open borders for everyone, Sinn Fein has changed its policies over the last few years, all in a desperate attempt to achieve power. Not just changed its policies, after all, every political party makes adjustments in policy from time to time, but Sinn Fein have completed huge u-turns, following the people, not leading them.

Real leadership is about bringing change when it is the right thing to do, and now wavering from that. The Greens have demonstrated that leadership throughout this government, while Sinn Fein have done the opposite.

The Greens will lose seats in the next election but they will be back. More importantly, the legacy of their achievements this time around will live on.

I think they are more and more redundant tbh. Membership of the EU requires all parties in government to implement green policies.
The next wipeout may be the last one for them.

 from a group that would never vote for them in the first place

4.2% in the last poll suggests it's more than a group who have a problem with them.

Sinn Fein are the biggest danger to "insert every topic"

They are incompetent, even an alternative budget they couldn't produce

They are a danger to MNC's and all the jobs in Ireland from them, they want to remove LPT, which would reduce the money into county councils. Meaning all the playgrounds and amenities we are getting now will be gone, two huge playgrounds open in our area recently and done by the county council. They would be gone.

Name a topic and its a ramble of incompetence is all you get from them

The only plus would be it might stop them blocking every development in Ireland and driving up the price of houses/apartments as they spend years in court.

All you have is noise from the party, noise from the online clown brigade and incompetence from top to bottom. Drop kicking them into the middle of the atlantic would be no harm for both sides of the border

They are incompetent, even an alternative budget they couldn't produce

I get that you think a hypothetical budget that doesn't add up is incompetent.

What do you call not meeting the ACTUAL budget you implement?

The main thrust of the council’s latest criticism centred on the Government’s inability to adhere to its own 5 per cent spending rule, which it described as “deeply concerning”. The spending rule seeks to keep the annual increase in government spending inside a 5 per cent ceiling, which is viewed as sustainable for the Irish economy. It was adopted in 2021 but has been broken every year since.

Whataboutery alert.

When you say they are incompetent, who are you comparing them to?

I presume you mean the government who don't present hypothetical budgets they implement real budgets that as pointed out failed.

Incompetent too? Yep.

It is quite scary how unrealistic people are about the climate change issues. They think that we can continue to build houses on the top of mountains and at the end of every boreen and still not worry about climate change. That is the mentality of Sinn Fein writ loud and clear. Ignore the problems, pretend they will go away, pay lip service to the ideas. The reality is that if we are to save the planet, protect our children's future, our lives will have to suffer. Sinn Fein pretends this isn't so.

Have you seen Sinn Fein's policy on climate?

https://www.sinnfein.ie/files/2019/SF_Climate_Justice_Nov_2019.pdf

Here it is. It is really scary in its ignorance. Their gobbledy-gook on carbon tax is just a start. "All talk of using it for climate action is simply a ruse because the alternatives are not in place". That is just a lie from Sinn Fein, one of many lies that that party promulgates. Here is how the carbon tax is spent, all of it on climate action:

https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/273321/07262fac-d631-4b1c-a3eb-1e103bfec2ce.pdf#page=null

Of course, all we will get back is the gubberment this and the gubberment that. Not a single poster will be able to set out clearly how Sinn Fein's climate action policies will be better than the Greens. All we will get is guff and nonsense.

They are incompetent. No comparison needed. If my boss came out tomorrow and said I was incompetent I wouldn't ask him who he was comparing me to would I? (not that he would )

Releasing a alternative budget with errors is incompetent

Launching an insurance bill which would cost everyone more money is incompetent

Their entire portfolio is incompetent

Taking over DCC and ending up with less units than when they started is incompetent

The list goes on

Shouting about houses while blocking them and forcing people on the street is just disgusting behaviour

I fully expect another "what about" post, such is the way

Your boss would be comparing your work to a competent worker. Because that is what he wants, a 'competent worker'.

What you are doing is critiquing a hypothetical budget while ignoring the repeated failure of actual budgets.

Takes some level of tunnel vision to do that.