Anyone who voted the Greens out cannot complain about this
That stupid restaurant bailout
It’s quite clear the Govt. has already sat back on it’s laurels in the knowledge they can’t be gotten rid of due to the independents being bought and paid for.
They are not interested in furthering policies or taking any action that actually helps people, especially around quality of life and public transport.
Add this to the shelving of every single rail expansion in the most recent transport plan.
Just looking at Dublin, top three most traffic congested city in Europe. M50 at capacity, solution? Shelve the Luas south west. Absolute smooth brain move.
Get ready for years more of this. FFG gave forgotten that they actually have to do a job once elected not grandstand and pad their CVs.
LOLOLOLOL. What a F-ing joke. Not surprised though. Same people will be voted in again next year if young people refuse to go out and outvote the pensioners.
All but one Green TD was wiped out in the last election. These things have consequences, folks.
The previous finance minister banged on about saving for the rainy day so billions went into a few savings funds. Lovely, it’s not the wrong thing but we’re living in an endless drizzle of not very grand plans dying because of funding (and will).
We need to invest in the now to have a tomorrow worth a damn
Do we need government?
Considering there’s supposed to be a big increase in bus services this year in Cork with the completion of the new depot, an increase which is already 2 years behind schedule, thats pretty appalling.
I struggle to understand a justification for not unlocking immediate funding for the remaining shovel ready projects(dart south-west) and advancing the planning around the remaining projects (Navan rail etc).
Politically, these projects are popular and sought after! They are also extremely visible unlike a number of other necessary infra investments (energy grid, etc). The amount of photo ops and news cycles they could milk as each new station or bus corridor comes online should have all the political advisors salivating.
Additionally, Economically all the big ticket items (trains, luas, etc) seem to have strong ROI numbers.
By delaying they are creating increased frustration with incumbent parties and political risk for themselves.
Economically, if we can predict essentially all but guaranteed returns on our investments then even a months delay should be seen as an act of economic self sabotage.
We have such a small population and we can’t even cater its transport needs. The thick Paddy stereotype feels truer every day although its greedy self serving sleeveens that are the main cause of the dysfunction here.
Almost like it was never a priority in the first place… Oh wait
Every country has the government it deservesÂ
Didnt they just give 125 million euro to Ukraine? As spare change they had room to give away, yet cant afford anything extra for transport.
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Anyone who voted the Greens out cannot complain about this
That stupid restaurant bailout
It’s quite clear the Govt. has already sat back on it’s laurels in the knowledge they can’t be gotten rid of due to the independents being bought and paid for.
They are not interested in furthering policies or taking any action that actually helps people, especially around quality of life and public transport.
Add this to the shelving of every single rail expansion in the most recent transport plan.
Just looking at Dublin, top three most traffic congested city in Europe. M50 at capacity, solution? Shelve the Luas south west. Absolute smooth brain move.
Get ready for years more of this. FFG gave forgotten that they actually have to do a job once elected not grandstand and pad their CVs.
LOLOLOLOL. What a F-ing joke. Not surprised though. Same people will be voted in again next year if young people refuse to go out and outvote the pensioners.
All but one Green TD was wiped out in the last election. These things have consequences, folks.
The previous finance minister banged on about saving for the rainy day so billions went into a few savings funds. Lovely, it’s not the wrong thing but we’re living in an endless drizzle of not very grand plans dying because of funding (and will).
We need to invest in the now to have a tomorrow worth a damn
Do we need government?
Considering there’s supposed to be a big increase in bus services this year in Cork with the completion of the new depot, an increase which is already 2 years behind schedule, thats pretty appalling.
I struggle to understand a justification for not unlocking immediate funding for the remaining shovel ready projects(dart south-west) and advancing the planning around the remaining projects (Navan rail etc).
Politically, these projects are popular and sought after! They are also extremely visible unlike a number of other necessary infra investments (energy grid, etc). The amount of photo ops and news cycles they could milk as each new station or bus corridor comes online should have all the political advisors salivating.
Additionally, Economically all the big ticket items (trains, luas, etc) seem to have strong ROI numbers.
By delaying they are creating increased frustration with incumbent parties and political risk for themselves.
Economically, if we can predict essentially all but guaranteed returns on our investments then even a months delay should be seen as an act of economic self sabotage.
We have such a small population and we can’t even cater its transport needs. The thick Paddy stereotype feels truer every day although its greedy self serving sleeveens that are the main cause of the dysfunction here.
Almost like it was never a priority in the first place… Oh wait
Every country has the government it deservesÂ
Didnt they just give 125 million euro to Ukraine? As spare change they had room to give away, yet cant afford anything extra for transport.
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