Irish Politics Thread

Het-field wrote: I think playing politics with wages and salary is the lowest of the low in terms of appealing to voters (well, apart from the right wing nonsense spouted by the likes of the National Party). If that money is not going back to the exchequer it is being spent in a way that the recipient is willing to spend it even if all they are seeing is the “average industrial wage.”

You must be disgusted with your beloved blueshirts increasing minimum wage on at least 4 separate occasions

Up until the 90s they were appointments within the PS.   A PO or and AP would get the gig and would advise them on policy in the Department etc. since the 90s they are more party loyalists who are the eyes and ears of the minister separate to the Department.  As a result the number one requirement for them is that they are loyal to the TD in question.  Same for every party.  This appointment is not unique.  It’s in line with every other such appointment.  It’s the same with opposition parties and their parliamentary assistants.  

If their ideology wasn’t so dangerous, their stupidity would be laughable.

He may have a point as Russia has it's tentacles and influence everywhere these days although OohAhh will probably disagree. However this begs the question are they also militarizing the flow of refugees to Ireland. We know they're behind the huge numbers trying to illegally cross into Eastern Europe. They likely have a hand in the Mediterranean crisis also. Who's to say they've not been promoting the movement into Ireland too? They'd hardly go to the effort of sponsoring far right parties without giving people a reason to vote for them? 

Well it's not. Once they push them through to any EU country, they are free to travel all around the sheghan without visas, etc once they claim asylum in one of them - and then somehow get to ireland 

And then you have this problem:  

(Stat given by helen mcentee here: https://www.newstalk.com/news/nothing-that-doesnt-benefit-ireland-in-eu-asylum-pact-mcentee-1710923