Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

I'm going to listen to the interview in a moment if its up and comment

However these migrants have to go somewhere as still as they come in

Big long consultations/reviews and planning queries would cause the mother of all backlogs,its a silly suggestion

Philip Boucher Hayes might be sued by Mary Lou for questioning her like that.

How dare he ask where sinn fein will find the additional €60m+ per year for the additional staff and the costs of their pensions and the costs of their offices.

or will it come from the money trees that sinn fein seem to think they can grow?

Their so-called policy on immigration was literally laughable.

"we'll let the people decide is a IPAS centre goes into their town - and if the people say no we'll put it in anyway" - so funny

No party vying for government has 'costed' their plans, so PBH went for the easy low hanging fruit that he knew would be clung to by the usual crew.

Show us the costed policies of FF and FG and the Greens when they were vying for government then?
Do they include these spending figures?

I have asked Bobson but he neglected to post links.

Another surprising take from you jh79, 😁

No, she got no chance to do anything.
He never let her talk for more than a few seconds without interrupting.

We know it would have been a 'car crash' no matter what she said in the eyes of some. Even those who clearly didn't bother listen to it.

She said costings didn't matter and that fixing a serious problem was the priority when asked and PBH insisted on asking for costings and interrupted continuously when she tried to correct his reading (or lack of) of the document.

She didn't get a chance to outline what the policy actually was and involved.

Costings don't matter? Why does she witter on about the Children's Hospital all the time?

A simple google search provides you with a document that tells you that an EO in the civil service will cost €64,870 a year (all in cost) under the PSC in 2021. Allow that most will be EOs with a sprinkling of higher grades and you can assume €70k. Multiply that by 1,000 new civil servants and you can, in literally ten seconds calculate that the cost of 1,000 civil servants in the IPO will be €70m.

That not a single person in Sinn Fein was able to do that tells you all you need to know about their preparedness for government, their competence in figures and more importantly, their credibility to the electorate.

Long live MLMD as the leader of SF. One modern phenomenon of politics is that leaders have a shorter shelf life. That is why the SDs, Greens and FG have changed leadership. Doesn't apply to parties chasing the older conservative vote like FF. You see the same in the US with the Kamala bounce.

I heard from a friend of mine about the interview, and its done the rounds on Twitter.

MLD it seems gets rattled easily and cant handle hard questions.

The boys in West Belfast may need to replace her. Get the guns out!

she seemed weak, very weak. How so if you claimed her only weakness is chocolate?

I just listened again.
It is actually extraordinary that PBH made a statement on behalf of the government(that audits were being carried out) and point blank refused MLMD a right to reply to that.

Hopefully Eamon Ryan (who made the same claim) will be pursued by decent journalists to see these audits and how they arrived at Coolock as a suitable venue for instance.

Checks thread title, yes, we are in the Sinn Fein thread.

Great that you accept that the Sinn Fein policy is threadbare, uncosted and MLMD hasn't got a clue, so you revert to whataboutery.

By the way, SF has half a page on transitioning to State-provided accommodation for refugees. Roderic's department has already published an 18-page strategy on how they will do that, it looks like SF didn't even read that first.

I don't think a rolling situation can be costed blanch.

Which is why I wouldn't be looking for FG or FF or Green costing.
It's not possible to know.

You can bullshit like they did on the Children's Hsp etc etc etc etc.

The problem needs fixing as it is destabilising already vulnerable communities, vulnerable because they are already deprived via government policies.