Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

eh?

You are blind Clo. You get off calling a hypothetical budget incompetent (SF corrected the Business Post claims btw) while ignoring actual incompetence.

Take the plank out of your eye maybe?

*I don't think there is a perfect political party on the planet btw. They will all make mistakes, do good and bad.

** Nobody, certainly not I, is claiming Ireland is a terrible place to live. Again you need some perspective.

A Just Transition Task Force This is a good idea
No carbon tax increases in the absence of viable alternatives Fully agree with this
No new licences for offshore fossil fuel drilling and no new
fossil fuel infrastructure - Absolutely agree and any 'Green' staying in a government doing this is a bogus Green.
A total ban on fracking across the island of Ireland, including
exploratory drilling, and a total ban on the importation of
fracked gas - I agree
Termination of all peat and coal electricity over the next five
years - While it would be a good thing, I think 5 years is hopeful
State divestment in fossil fuel projects - I agree
All data centres to be powered through self-generated 100%
renewable energy - Agree
A legal and structural framework for domestic microgeneration
of renewable energy - Agree
Greater community ownership and public participation in
renewable energy projects. - Again, a good idea on several levels

I also agree with them on the wrongheadedness of the taxation approach to changing behaviours. What the Greens are seeking to change by taxing people will not halt or put the tiniest dent in saving the planet. Therefore tax the worst offenders first, then work down the chain. Bring people with you instead of alienating them from the get go.

Some in SF hate FF and vice versa, after FF leader DeValera executed some IRA in an Irish prison back in the forties : some Republicans have not forgotten that.

When I said that SF are the new FF, I was seeing them as replacing the FF of Haughey and Ahern, corrupt, power-hungry and not interested in the people. There have always been a section of people who have voted for that type. If you look at vote-share, and add FF to SF, you get a figure close to what Haughey and Ahern used get. We even have them on here, posters claiming to have been fooled for 40 years and are now switching to SF for the first time.

I don't there is a snowball's chance in hell that FF will form a coalition with that type of party - after all, they never formed one with Haughey or Ahern.

Quite clearly, since FG have installed FF (with a leader who served in governments of Haughey and Ahern) in government, even though it was 'like putting Delaney back in the FAI', there is now a good FF and a bad FF.

I was curious about FFs green energy policy. They've actually listed targets and pathways to grow generation capacity through green sources, as well as promoting an import link between Ireland and France. Similar statements about fracking and new licenses for fossil fuel exploration. No mention of shutting down fossil fuel plants which is reasonable. That has to come after we increase renewables and we're a long way from that unfortunately. They have a half way point wrt peat. It talks of reviews and amendments rather than outright shutdowns.

If we can reasonably shut down generators I would hope we kill the most polluting ones first. Those generally have the best ramp up times to meet surges in demand though.

I wish someone was talking more about storage though. I was a bit disappointed to not see either policy committing to targets around storage capacity.

Objectively the FF policy is more detailed and provides a clearer structure on how we get to net zero and renewable generation. If green energy would win your vote, FF is better than SF in terms of vision, approach and targets

What I read in their housing policy says that the LA's would hold the no charge leases,

The buyer isn’t paying for the site. It’s proposed as an alternative to shared equity I assume.
Will it work? I don’t know but it seems as sound as shred equity does to me.

The advantage is that the buyer isn't paying for the site? Is that to reduce the cost? Who pays the cost of the site then? If buyer isn't paying for the site then they will not own the site their house stands on.

That's very different to shared equity, where the buyer can purchase the house outright over time as a freehold property.

The bubble has burst for Sinn Fein.

I've made the prediction that Lynn Boylan is in serious danger of not winning a seat in Dublin.

Not sure how Kathleen Funcion became a TD. One of the worst TDs I've ever seen. Her only luck is that the South has 5 seats available, only 4 in Dublin.

The taxpayer pays for the current incentives.

The central plank of SF's claim to solve housing 'doesnt seem any worse an idea to try'. But is it any better? Putting a system in place that splits a residential property between leasehold and freehold is a big step. A very big step. Why does O'Broin want to do it? Not just to be different surely? What is the logic behind it? Does he want to eventually intoduce ground rent on people's houses? The system would open the door for future governments to do just that.

The UK is one of the only (if not the only) country that has the leasehold system in place. It grew out of cash strapped landlords wanting to hold on to their ancestral property claims but still be able to extract value from their asset. At first glance it seems strange that SF would want to model their policy on an artefact of the British landlord system.

If its only to be applied to public land, and there is no lease value to be paid, why bother with the system at all? If the local authorities have to acquire land then the cost of the site will still need to be financed in the transaction. A leasehold structure will not make the land free.

I can kind of see the intent behind the council keeping the land for the purposes of reducing costs (the buyer doesn't pay for the land). However, it's just setting up future issues (money into the hands of the legal profession) and very few would want to buy that way while doing nothing to increase the supply (just stop objecting to houses getting built Sinn Fein…). The houses themselves become un-sellable.

The era of Mary Lou peering over her glasses; P Doherty shouting and roaring, and Matt Carthy being thick and belligerent is over for SF. A good era for them in terms of growth and acceptability, but they are screwed if they think that’s the strategy going forward.

How does it 'seem' different to the UK feudal landlord system? How is it better? In your opinion?

Eoin O Broin has positioned himself as 'the man with the plan'. There has been little to no examination of said plan.

My personal opinion is that the plan needs a thorough examination. Seeming different or hopefully better or change for the sake of it are very weak endorsements.

Theres actually nothing wrong with O'Broins plan as long as the home owner is given the option to buy out the ground later with the state covering all legal expenses

The state would not of course want to be seen to be making a profit,so the buy out figure should be fixed at the time of house build and written into the contract

Nothing wrong at all with it

@FrancieBrady If you could feed that back to O'Broin,I'd be most greatful 😆