Tag: Politics Ireland
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Small Win, Big Loss?
The Unions representing Semi-State workers seem to feel that they have derailed decentralisation plans with the Labour Court ruling preventing the explicit use of promotion as a means to encourage workers to move out of Dublin. While the semi-state sector’s use of the idea was blunt and unsubtle, in the long run, the ruling is…
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Look Up..It’s not Aer Lingus anymore
The reaction to the dropping of the Shannon-Heathrow provides an opportunity for many groups to show the limits of their frame of reference. Government, Unions, pilots, management and others are all lining up to be ‘surprised’ at the real world.
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Election
So the election is over, and this crowd of nannystaters beat the other crowd of nannystaters, apparently because people believe that the government actually runs the economy and the wrong government might wreck it. Since all the major parties promised exactly the same tax cuts, along with more police and more hospital beds, there wasn’t…
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PDs plan to give (some) of you back (some) of your money
I hear on the radio this morning that the PDs claim they are not engaging in auction politics with their 1 for 2 SSIA style pension deal. I wonder how voters will buy this without asking where the extra ‘free’ Euro comes from?
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Sugar for my honey?
The media today is full of moaning about a story that is a testament to stupidity – the division of compensation for the closure of the Irish sugar industry. There should be no compensation, because there should be no closure.
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‘Sorry seems to be the hardest word..’
It is amazing how politicans find it impossible to simply admit they made a mistake, dump the evoting machines they wasted 50 million on, and buy a decent system with open source software and a full paper trail
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Doing some (dis)service to the State
I am not sure it was entirely appropiate for Bertie Ahern to give the graveside oration the the funeral of C. J. Haughey. While CJ was most certainly entitled to a State Funeral as a former Taoiseach, it might have been better to allow a former colleague to give the oration.
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PD Tax Cuts
The 1% tax promised by the Progressive Democrats this weekend is based on unrealistic assumptions about economic growth. I don’t think many voters will actually be wooed by it.
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Speed Cameras
I see the Government have decided to publish the locations of the 600 new speed cameras they plan to put in place – sometime. I think this is a good idea.
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Aer Lingus
The government may well have signed its own electoral death warrant this week by deciding to privitise Aer Lingus. It is not that they are wrong to privitise it, but they should have done it 4 years ago.
