The decline of FG?

Personally fine with that. Principle before power. They can carry on in opposition and affect change (and their rise has done that) from there.
I personally think Harris will become one of the most reviled leaders of FG ever given time. I didn't have any faith in Varadkar when he was hitting the mid 30's in the polls either and predicted he would lead them back to 2020 GE levels. So too will Simon he might even outdo Varadkar.

’Currently’ is doing a lot of work there. I was speculating about the ‘future’ .

There won't be a SF-led government.

FF would much prefer being in coalition with a FG-led government than a SF-led government.

There is only one way SF get into power after the next election - as a junior partner to FF, with no rotating Taoiseach, and key ministries in FF hands. SF would be given Housing and Health. As no country in the world currently can fix those issues, they would be set up to fail. The danger for the country is that they could spectacularly fail, making everything far far worse.

I don't know about that, SF managed to successfully keep water charges out of Northern Ireland, the only part of the UK to do so. Now I will say it's a power sharing executive with limited powers but it does show competency. PBP and Solidarity managed were some of the top campaigners for abortion rights and even the current opposition party, Labour, were instrumental in the legislation for marriage equality

That's just 3 examples off the top of my head! Maybe you have been following FFG religiously for so long that you don't understand competency anymore?

I find a government where SF bow to the will of a right wing party to be highly unlikely. If they improve on their last election result they will be the biggest party in the Dáil so whoever wants to form a govt with them will need to accept the junior coalition role. I think regardless of makeup SF will want control of health and housing to prove that they can be fixed

With that being said I don't think FFG would be interested in being minority to SF and would rather be in opposition so we could potentially have multiple GE's coming up

If they fixed healthcare and housing crises before the next GE FFG might have a chance. A SF led govt is closer than you might think

Yes this is true, the tories did rip the funding from the NHS pre-covid. Not much to do with SF there mind… Do you have any examples of FFG competence?

Yes, very petty of them but party before country is the best way for FFG I guess

Examples of FFG competence?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

The seventh best country in the world according to the HDI is Ireland, up seven places in 2022.

What is interesting is that the HDI Index is based on hard cold facts, such as life expectancy etc. Other indices, based on opinions, have Ireland further down.

The real reality is that FF and FG have been good for the people of this country, but that the people of this country don't recognise this. It is one thing to be living at home with your parents in Somalia and barely feeding yourself, but another to be living at home with your parents in Ireland, owning a brand new car, going on holidays four times a year, drinking yourself stupid at the weekends, but bemoaning your lot.

…the fundamentals of these issues are extremely complex in nature, these issues are now so seriously, it actually doesnt matter what governments are formed, these problems are effectively unfixable in the short to medium term, but its clearly obvious, whatever ffg come up with, will just keep exasperating these issues…

…another ffg government is absolutely built in, as theyll obviously back each other until its mathematically impossible to do so, and the only way for an alternative to be formed such as an sf lead government, would mean they would need to receive a significant amount of high preference votes, a near majority, in order to break the bond between ffg, which is clearly not going to happen this time around, and possible may never….

….again, theres not going to be a sf government, period…..

No, I mean all types of home delivery. Without investment funds making large apartment/house complexes viable, the homes wont get built in the first place.

Whether they are to rent or buy.

I would like to see the govt incentivise funds to sell more apartments though, I agree.

But with SF in power, i wouldnt see the homes getting built in the first place. That would save you the trouble of worrying about whether they were rental or saleable…

FFG 40k homes next year and 32k this year. Cranes everywhere in Dublin and the highest number of commencements since records began nearly 10 years ago.

SF, no costed plan at all and an attack on the funds that finance all the developments in the first place!....i know which horse I would back in that race.

Not to mention SF blocking young and first time buyers from getting on the ladder by getting rid of help to buy.

Where did the incumbents ‘cost’ what trying to fix the housing crisis would be?

Show us the documents?

When you are finished find the ‘costings’ for getting us a basically functioning health service.

The incumbents have overseen the delivery of 33k last year and commencements this year are at record levels. The evidence is in front of you. Its the new homes built!

Doesnt get more real than that!

The healthcare system will take a long time to fix, I agree. But I see no evidence as to why SF would do a better job.

I do know that getting rid of help to buy would push doctors and nurses further away from owning their own homes though. Whereas the current govt would continue to help first time buyers get on the ladder.