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We refuse to legitimise grifters.
Gript was founded by the anti-choice Life Institute & Youth Defense.
They donated (the max allowed) €18,000 to right-wing European parties.
One 'journalist' was a far right candidate, & another was a anti-choice campaigner.
They grift for donations, while refusing to release their finances.
#Gript #IrishPol
https://youtu.be/33CHmWWk898?feature=shared

Government are determined to abolish the Triple Lock to free their hands to send troops abroad wherever they want. In reality they want to get us closer and closer to NATO which is led by countries who are arming and funding Israel’s genocide in Palestine.
#SaveTheTripleLock #IrishPol
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41610385.html

6 Key Steps to making our domestic economy more productive and resilient in the face of Trump's Tariffs!

#Ireland #Irish #IrishEconomy #Tariffs #TrumpTariffs #Economics #PublicServices #IrishGovernment #IndustrialPolicy #IrishPol #Globalisation #FineGael #FiannaFáil

1) Invest massively in infrastructure: housing, transport, energy, water, electricity, waste.

2) Expand universal free public services: reduce costs by providing free healthcare, social care, childcare etc so people are able to spend more money in the productive economy and so that more people are available to work.

3) Strengthen worker rights & conditions: despite the mentality in Ireland/US/England, unions and strong worker protections often go hand in hand with higher productivity, with many of the most productive economies having strong unions and worker rights. The reality is, when someone likes their job, they tend to stay later and so companies maintain more embedded knowledge and productivity gains through years of upskilling. Also, when someone feels valued and respected, they are often motivated to work harder and do more.

4) Invest in Irish companies: we need to look at the model of Germany and others (including the EU with their European Investment Bank) and create public banks which invest in Irish startups and in the local economies across our island.

5) Lower input costs through public non-profits: we have incredibly high costs when it comes to insurance, construction, banking, and energy. In all cases, the State should provide a non-profit option with the aim of reducing prices as much as possible, which competes with the private, commercial options. With energy, this would mean reforming the State-owned ESB from a commercial/for-profit into a non-profit. With insurance, it would mean expanding the non-profit, State-owned VHI to all other forms of insurance. With banking and construction, it would mean creating new non-profit public options.

6) Democratise and Decentralise: we live in one of the most centralised countries in the OECD and in the EU. We are also one of the few democracies which lack democratic local governments and regional governments of any kind. It's no secret that our State is highly inefficient and the lack of accountability which comes from decades of centralisation and a reluctance to empower local and regional democracy is a major reason for this. By making things more local and more democratic (like in other thriving countries), we can improve the efficiency of public money and improve public services by holding those in charge of them to account.

The Irish government is hardening it's position on Palestine now that the election is over.
They are complicit and refuse to take ANY action to end this complicity.

Join the protest outside the Central Bank on Tuesday 8th April at 12.30pm!

#StopFundingGenocide #EndIsraeliWarBonds #IrishPol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkRoytc1t8

The RTE News panel are discussing how wonderful the difference is between Micheál Martin's first Taoiseach ceremony which was socially distanced versus this one that will have none of those precautions... all while one of those panelists is coughing up a lung mid-conversation

#irishpol
#CovidIsNotOver

All joking aside, I am really proud of Ireland today.

Today the Irish government tried to overturn democratic norms and our opposition parties put aside their differences, presented a united front, and refused to be steamrolled.

#irishpol

GOVERNMENT: Ughhhh why are the Opposition being so annoying?! All we want is for some specially chosen people to have the benefits of both being in government and being in opposition but none of the negatives, and so have an easier time in the next election.

What's the problem?

#irishpol

I'm really glad to have been able to contribute to this article about financial transparency and how much each candidate is spending in the General Election!

https://www.waterford-news.ie/news/local-politics/how-much-does-it-cost-to-run-a-general-election-campaign-in-waterford_arid-39661.html

#Waterford #GE2024 #GE24 #FinancialTransparency #IrishElection #irishelection2024 #democracy #GeneralElection2024 #ireland #irish #irishpolitics #irishpol

I thought I knew who would be on Friday’s ballot paper from looking at posters on poles, and from leaflets through the letterbox (only one candidate has turned up in person). But using #WhichCandidate I realised about a 1/3 of the candidates in my constituency are unpreferrable to me in every way, and about 3 or 4 were unknown to me. WhichCandidate helped me make a plan for Friday #IrePol #IrishPol #GE2024 #DBN #Mastodaoine #GE24 #IrelandVotes

From: @lexiconista
https://mastodon.ie/@lexiconista/113545287758245995

Staying off social media for a while. Not just *that* over there but other stuff too. BUT six “I***h L***s M****r” election posters up in my area. No publisher/ printer, or party notified. #GE2024 #IrishPol #IrishPolitics #Election2024 #Northside #Dublin #ElectionPosters #Mastodaoine
For poster offence in Dublin City Council area, report here: https://citizenhub.dublincity.ie/service/Report_Electoral_Poster

This is very sloppy stuff from #RTE.
Yeah, the bike sheds were way too expensive, but the RTE report is a complete mess.
It's like Micheal Lehane was only half-listening to what was being said.

RTE report: https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0924/1471750-bike-shelter-leinster-house/

OPW report: https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/305772/81bcfb0a-fa4a-4b52-b131-9d5814587e4b.pdf#page=null

#IrishPol #BikeSheds #Oireachtas

A snippet from an RTE article

More than €121,000 was spent on steel works as part of the construction of the infamous Leinster House bike shelter that cost €336,000.

The Oireachtas Commission which oversees the running of the house heard that the cost of granite was in the region of €45,000. The Commission got a breakdown of a number of the costs from the chairperson of the OPW.

Surveying work amounted to €11,000 while the "outer work” on the shelter came in at €53,000.

VAT on the construction totalled more than €38,000 while other costs listed included "Dry Work” which cost around €30,000.

There was "Day Work" too that ran up a bill of more than €23,000.

A snippet from an OPW report on the bike shed build

ii) Final Account Summary July 2024

1. Covered Shelter & bike stands 121,194.29 Incl. manufacture, supply & install

2. Other Works - Leinster Lawn North 52,886.84 Groundworks incl. ducting and power/Drainage/ Resurfacing works

Granite landscaping (supply and install) 44,940.00
Dayworks: 30,468.69
Preliminaries 2 23,043.73
Agreed variation 11,416.04
Total Works 283,949.59 (ex VAT) VAT 38,333.19

3. Archaeology Services 2952 (incl VAT) Quantity Surveying Services (incl contract management) 10,816.52 _ (incl VAT) Total: 336,051.30

The corrected report, with tracked changes

Neale Richmond spinning inheritance tax as a tax on the squeezed middle here.

He seems to have forgotten that while the wealth of the majority of people who have any significant wealth at all is held in the family home, CAT also applies to all other wealth being inherited.

It is an absolute lie to say that inheritance taxes impact ordinary people more than the wealthy.
One person inheriting the median house in Ireland pays no tax on it.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/07/09/the-debate-should-inheritance-tax-be-cut-in-the-budget/

#IrishPol #mastodaoine

I remember Nell McCafferty from the very start of my political consciousness as a child. I remember most recently footage of her in Helen Cammock’s Turner Prize winning artwork “The Long Note.” She recalls a community face-off with the Brits in Derry: history-making, rule-breaking, victoriously feminist, and furiously funny, all from dark circumstances. RIP Nell. #NellMcCafferty #IrishPol #RIP #Mastodaoine

Am I right in saying in the UK once the count is complete, and a majority of seats are clearly allocated to one party, the Monarch appoints the leader of that party as PM. Whereas in Ireland the Dáil has to vote first for Taoiseach and then the trip to the President takes place for appointment?
#UKPol #IrishPol #Constitution #Mastodaoine
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-election-2024-latest-updates-keir-starmer-rishi-sunak-nigel-farage/

O'Gorman (supported CETA and coalition with FF/FG) as likely leader and, once the dust settles, Hackett (also supported CETA and coalition) as likely deputy leader.

So that's The Greens firmly positioning themselves as a business friendly centrist party for the next decade 🫤
#irishpolitics
#irishpol

Bluesky and Mastodon just can't touch the giddy madness that is Election Twitter.

Maybe someday!

#EE24
#EE2024
#LE24
#LE2024
#irishpol
#IrishPolitics
#EuropeanPolitics

Watching, reading, and listening to all this political commentary on why SF didn't gain seats from disaffected voters, and not one mention of the recent referendum where SF championed the side that the electorate rejected.

#LE24
#LE2024
#EE2024
#EE24
#irishpol
#IrishPolitics
#EuropeanPolitics

Voted! Glad I followed @gavreilly's suggestion and put my list on my phone, they are long ballots 😂
#EE2024
#LE2024
#irishpol
#IrishPolitics
#EuropeanPolitics

What's your plan for getting to the polling station tomorrow for the Irish and European elections?

I am not hearing much buzz about voting, and creating voter apathy is one of the far right's paths to power.

Use your vote, and keep the far right out!

#LE2024
#EE2024
#irishpolitics
#irishpol

#IrishPol

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