Very little of the NGO sector is in advocacy – although listening to some people you’d swear we were handling billions of a year to the woke mob, rather than to charities who spend most of their time providing services.
Firing people with useless degrees & milking the tax payer can’t be a bad thing….
Not ‘calls’. One call.
Just to point out that 1 person has called for resignations, Michael O’Dowd. I googled him, I’m not sure if it’s the same fella but theres a Louth Aontu rep called Michael O’Dowd.
If it’s an Aontu rep and the Indo hasn’t included that info, this is dogshit in terms of transparency and looks like distractions from the governments horrendous handling of the entire thing.
Forgive me if I’m out of touch here – but what’s a “failed” referendum? I thought the point of a referendum was to poll people on their preferences/opinions and enact them accordingly. While I might have strong feelings about some past referenda – I don’t think the point of any referendum is to guarantee a certain result.
If there were to be resignations about anything in Irish public/political life, this hardly seems the most pressing/serious topic to cause them?
Time to dismantle the NGO industrial complex
Who is doing the calling, exactly?
People underestimate how much NGO funding is provided by public funding. Over 8 billion a year is spent by the public on these organisations.
Most are doing fine work. There is no doubt about that. However, mixed in amongst them. There are some NGOs that do absolutely nothing and are in inherently bad for society through other woke campaigning, lobbying, et cetera, et cetera.
There needs to be an agency with the responsibility of reviewing the usefulness and effectiveness of all NGOs drawing state funds. Greater public transparency will also draw attention to the problems and challenges. These organisations are facing daily.
It’s tough but it is democracy at the end of the day. I’m just genuinely curious to know what wording people would’ve liked to see.
Massive defunding needed for any NGO that sees its role as social engineering or re-education of a non progressive people.
Is it just me or does anyone else feel like the use of the term ‘NGO’ is being used deliberately to avoid calling groups a ‘charity’ like we would have years ago?
Like NGO is really quite a wide ranging term that includes an awful lot of other organisations that generally don’t belong to the context it’s being used in
Are NGOs the biggest bogeyman since Quangos?
It seems like the media wants to make a big deal out of the referendum when all the data seems to indicate that nobody really cares.
What really annoys me is they keep acting like they know what’s best for us, When they’re so out of touch.
Was there a huge amount of NGO’s that receive government funding involved in the campaigning?
If people think NGOs are expensive, wait until the government has to do the job instead.
But then again, I have a feeling it’s *specific* NGOs people want shut down, isn’t it? The ones they don’t name for the same reason they prefer to say “woke” instead of getting specific.
Womens Council is a disgrace. They hate women who dont agree with their particular view of the world. Defund them
People rightly complain about the shit that goes on in semi states like RTE, HSE, and the ESB; but if people realised the sheer waste of tax payer money in NGO’s, especially the ones that go against the desires of the majority of the public, they would go crazy. An ex of mine worked in one and it was a complete sham from top to bottom.
What is the fucking story with the media nowadays.
One singular call from one person and it makes a headline.
And then interviewing people like Andy Heasman and his gang of fuckwits because they started a political party in their living room.
Wtf is going on?
Any NGO that advocated for Yes/ Yes should be dissolved as they do not have the best interests of the people they claim to represent.
NGOs advocating for yes votes was like turkeys voting for Christmas!
They are clearly bought organisations to cover for political agendas. They should be refunded and the government should take complete control over service delivery.
That way, every issue would become transparent as politicians would face the electorate around their decisions. NGOs allow them to hide behind unelected individuals who they reward with positions to push their agendas!
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Very little of the NGO sector is in advocacy – although listening to some people you’d swear we were handling billions of a year to the woke mob, rather than to charities who spend most of their time providing services.
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Firing people with useless degrees & milking the tax payer can’t be a bad thing….
Not ‘calls’. One call.
Just to point out that 1 person has called for resignations, Michael O’Dowd. I googled him, I’m not sure if it’s the same fella but theres a Louth Aontu rep called Michael O’Dowd.
If it’s an Aontu rep and the Indo hasn’t included that info, this is dogshit in terms of transparency and looks like distractions from the governments horrendous handling of the entire thing.
Forgive me if I’m out of touch here – but what’s a “failed” referendum? I thought the point of a referendum was to poll people on their preferences/opinions and enact them accordingly. While I might have strong feelings about some past referenda – I don’t think the point of any referendum is to guarantee a certain result.
If there were to be resignations about anything in Irish public/political life, this hardly seems the most pressing/serious topic to cause them?
Time to dismantle the NGO industrial complex
Who is doing the calling, exactly?
People underestimate how much NGO funding is provided by public funding. Over 8 billion a year is spent by the public on these organisations.
Most are doing fine work. There is no doubt about that. However, mixed in amongst them. There are some NGOs that do absolutely nothing and are in inherently bad for society through other woke campaigning, lobbying, et cetera, et cetera.
There needs to be an agency with the responsibility of reviewing the usefulness and effectiveness of all NGOs drawing state funds. Greater public transparency will also draw attention to the problems and challenges. These organisations are facing daily.
It’s tough but it is democracy at the end of the day. I’m just genuinely curious to know what wording people would’ve liked to see.
Massive defunding needed for any NGO that sees its role as social engineering or re-education of a non progressive people.
Is it just me or does anyone else feel like the use of the term ‘NGO’ is being used deliberately to avoid calling groups a ‘charity’ like we would have years ago?
Like NGO is really quite a wide ranging term that includes an awful lot of other organisations that generally don’t belong to the context it’s being used in
Are NGOs the biggest bogeyman since Quangos?
It seems like the media wants to make a big deal out of the referendum when all the data seems to indicate that nobody really cares.
What really annoys me is they keep acting like they know what’s best for us, When they’re so out of touch.
Was there a huge amount of NGO’s that receive government funding involved in the campaigning?
If people think NGOs are expensive, wait until the government has to do the job instead.
But then again, I have a feeling it’s *specific* NGOs people want shut down, isn’t it? The ones they don’t name for the same reason they prefer to say “woke” instead of getting specific.
Womens Council is a disgrace. They hate women who dont agree with their particular view of the world. Defund them
People rightly complain about the shit that goes on in semi states like RTE, HSE, and the ESB; but if people realised the sheer waste of tax payer money in NGO’s, especially the ones that go against the desires of the majority of the public, they would go crazy. An ex of mine worked in one and it was a complete sham from top to bottom.
What is the fucking story with the media nowadays.
One singular call from one person and it makes a headline.
And then interviewing people like Andy Heasman and his gang of fuckwits because they started a political party in their living room.
Wtf is going on?
Any NGO that advocated for Yes/ Yes should be dissolved as they do not have the best interests of the people they claim to represent.
NGOs advocating for yes votes was like turkeys voting for Christmas!
They are clearly bought organisations to cover for political agendas. They should be refunded and the government should take complete control over service delivery.
That way, every issue would become transparent as politicians would face the electorate around their decisions. NGOs allow them to hide behind unelected individuals who they reward with positions to push their agendas!
But what do I know really!