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« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2021, 01:23:39 pm »
WILLY O DEA GETS HIS DEAL AND TIT FOR TAT THE GREENS GET THERES .TAIL WAGGING THE DOG .who is in charge .


Hugh O'Connell and Philip Ryan

February 10 2021 12:20 PM

THE controversial EU-Canada trade deal is to be referred to an Oireachtas committee in a bid to prevent a damaging split in the Green Party.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan have agreed that the EU’s Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada will be referred to the Oireachtas European Affairs Committee for further scrutiny.

The move further delays a Dáil vote on a motion to ratify CETA which would have seen a number of Green TDs, including prominent backbencher Neasa Hourigan, vote against their own party.

“I can confirm that discussions have been ongoing at leader level in relation to the trade deal and that yesterday it was agreed to put it to [the] Oireachtas Committee as the best way to manage it,” Mr Ryan’s spokesman confirmed to Independent.ie on Wednesday.

“We think that the EU Affairs Committee is the best one to deal with it as trade negotiations on international agreement are an EU competence.”

Ms Hourigan and another Dáil backbencher, Patrick Costello, along with Green Party councillors and members have voiced strong opposition to CETA, claiming it would allow multinationals to sue Ireland if strong climate and social rights protections are brought in. Ms Hourigan has said publicly she will not vote for the deal when it comes before the Dáil.

Already a Dáil vote on CETA in December was postponed over the internal rift within the Green Party despite its four ministers at Cabinet, including Mr Ryan and deputy leader Catherine Martin, agreeing that it should be ratified by TDs.

"The move to place CETA under the scrutiny of a committee is in no small part due to the pressure placed on the government by various environmental groups and members of the public voicing their opposition to the fast track the treaty ratification seemed to be on,” Ms Hourigan said on Wednesday.

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“Scrutiny by an Oireachtas Committee is a necessary step in the process but not an end in itself. An Oireachtas Committee should provide a forum for the detailed examination of some of the issues we have with the CETA treaty, particularly the Investment Court System. The next step is to look at the detail of the committee instruction."

Mr Costello also welcomed the news but said he was still strongly opposed to the deal and that the question of whether it may require a referendum must be addressed comprehensively before any Dáil vote.

“The news that CETA will now go before the Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs is a very welcome development and will finally ensure a longer and more comprehensive debate will be facilitated,” he said.


“Both myself and Deputy Neasa Hourigan have spoken out against the deal for months now, as have Green Party members who are due a large amount of credit for the internal pressure they have driven.

“I am glad to see that we will finally have an opportunity to see key questions answered, particularly on the constitutionality of the Investment Court System and on the Dáil ratification of CETA.

“The question of whether CETA requires a referendum must also be addressed comprehensively. CETA is too serious to rush through without listening to debate from other countries and without ensuring a comprehensive analysis and discussion of potential consequences.”

A senior Fine Gael source said the move helps Mr Ryan’s internal difficulties but stressed that, although not urgent, the deal will need to be ratified.

Despite signing a letter supporting the deal in December, it is understood Green Party deputy leader Catherine Martin put pressure on ministerial colleagues to have the deal scrutinised by an Oireachtas Committee.

She recently told a party conference that the leadership should listen to dissenting voices. Ms Martin’s husband and Dublin South West TD Francis Noel Duffy also wrote to Oireachtas EU Affairs Committee today asking for a debate on CETA.

When contacted Minister Martin’s spokesperson said: “she was happy there was now an effort to scrutinised this agreement at an Oireachtas Committee level.”

“She has voiced concerns to Green Party colleagues and she has listened to the membership, NGOs and civil society groups,” he added.


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Re: 2/1 a general election this year just got a big boost
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2021, 01:39:00 pm »
Fair play to these two cabbages   This thing is insanity ..“Scrutiny by an Oireachtas Committee is a necessary step in the process but not an end in itself. An Oireachtas Committee should provide a forum for the detailed examination of some of the issues we have with the CETA treaty, particularly the Investment Court System. The next step is to look at the detail of the committee instruction."

Mr Costello also welcomed the news but said he was still strongly opposed to the deal and that the question of whether it may require a referendum must be addressed comprehensively before any Dáil vote.

“The news that CETA will now go before the Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs is a very welcome development and will finally ensure a longer and more comprehensive debate will be facilitated,” he said.


“Both myself and Deputy Neasa Hourigan have spoken out against the deal for months now, as have Green Party members who are due a large amount of credit for the internal pressure they have driven.

“I am glad to see that we will finally have an opportunity to see key questions answered, particularly on the constitutionality of the Investment Court System and on the Dáil ratification of CETA.


IF the Irish Government Ban Smoking the Cigarette Companies can sue the Government for loss of earnings .If we ban Petrol Cars the Oil Companies can sue for loss of earnings .This thing is Fucking Madness .

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Re: 2/1 a general election this year just got a big boost
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2021, 01:49:40 pm »
Ban Cetaceans altogether.

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« Reply #18 on: February 13, 2021, 06:25:29 am »
Great to see the Irish Times are catching up with the real up to date media here at Irish Taxi Forum we said this last week .


It hasn’t been a great week for the Greens.

But there is precious little sympathy for Eamon Ryan and his party from their coalition partners.

News of the Minister for Transport’s embarrassing climbdown on delaying the completion of the Coonagh-Knockalisheen road in Limerick was greeted joyfully by Government colleagues in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Of course, they were delighted that the crucial stretch of road which will open up the Moyross estate to the northside of the city was finally approved by the Minister after he initially failed to sign off on it, saying other options should be explored first.

But they were even more delighted to see the Green Party leader “getting an awful kick in the ass”.

One Munster-based TD declared: “He needed to be put back in his green box. This wasn’t just about Limerick, there’s a lot of road projects waiting for the go-ahead and we needed to put a marker down.”

There was widespread welcome from all other parties in the Dáil for the decision to proceed and the fact that the Greens “saw sense” in the end.

“Ryan got a great introduction to good old-fashioned Junior B hurling. He never saw the political slashers coming and it was some onslaught. In the end, it was the most ignominious of climbdowns. We’re not talking Carrauntoohil here, more like Mont Blanc or Everest,” whooped a Fine Gaeler.

“We don’t feel sorry for him at all. He left the whole thing fester for weeks,” said a Fianna Fáil backbencher.

The Taoiseach and Tánaiste were left in no doubt by their troops that the final phase of the road must go ahead, as agreed in the programme for government.

“Imagine coming out against something you already agreed in the programme? These lads haven’t a clue,” marvelled another backbencher.

     
On Wednesday morning, the Green Party leader backtracked on breaching Europe’s biggest cul-de-sac and said the work would commence immediately.
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His earlier pronouncements caused consternation in Moyross. And the upshot on Tuesday was the loss of yet another elected representative. Cllr Claire Keating resigned from the Greens on Tuesday. When her party leader changed his mind, she said she would not be returning as it was “too little, too late”.

The Green Party is badly damaged in Limerick city. Independent Cllr Frankie Daly, displaying a colourful turn of phrase, told the Limerick Post the Greens were “a cult” and “a bunch of spacers” who think they can ride in at the last minute and change a plan that took 13 years to design.

“All we are short of here is Star Wars, they’re spacers, they are living on another planet.”

And the parish priest of Moyross called on Ryan to resign.

Back in the Dáil, there was no doubting where the Taoiseach’s sympathies lay. Confirming to the House that the plan was back on track, he singled out his Limerick TD for special mention, smilingly recalling Willie O’Dea’s “interesting” presentation to the parliamentary party in “his inimitable way”.

O’Dea was in high dudgeon over the threatened delay to the Moyross road. He quoted Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales: “Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.”

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Re: 2/1 a general election this year just got a big boost
« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2021, 11:27:50 pm »

Philip Ryan 

February 24 2021 08:08 PM

Senior Fine Gael politicians have launched a scathing attack on Taoiseach Micheál Martin over his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the first signs of cracks in the Coalition, Fine Gael party members criticised the Fianna Fáil leader and Health Minister Stephen Donnelly’s performance ahead of the publication of the Government’s new Covid-19 plan.

The Fine Gael parliamentary party also heard accusations of Fianna Fáil ministers throwing their coalition colleagues “under the bus” during televised interviews.

The tensions were sparked by a week of mixed messages and communication issues ahead of the launch of the ‘Covid-19 Resilience and Recovery 2021 - The Path Ahead’ plan.


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Re: 2/1 a general election this year just got a big boost
« Reply #20 on: February 25, 2021, 09:46:49 pm »
An Taoiseach's handling of the pandemic has been shambolic at best. If/when the election comes I hope you will support your local SPBP candidate given Richard Boyd Barrett's support for our trade during the pandemic.

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« Reply #21 on: February 27, 2021, 10:30:54 pm »
Before marrying him, Stephen Donnelly’s wife-to-be put her complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica on sale, saying she didn’t need them any longer, as her husband-to-be knew everything.

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« Reply #22 on: February 28, 2021, 12:26:37 am »
Before marrying him, Stephen Donnelly’s wife-to-be put her complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica on sale, saying she didn’t need them any longer, as her husband-to-be knew everything.
Jaysus  John, takes yeh back wha'?
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« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2021, 12:23:07 am »
MON, 01 MAR, 2021 - 22:13
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Fianna Fáil grassroots members have called on Micheál Martin to step aside as leader.

In a letter drafted by the entire officer board of Fianna Fáil's Cumann in Slane, Co Meath, members said the party now needed "someone with fire in his/her belly," and a leader who will "reignite our pride in our great party".

The members said they admire the Taoiseach for his achievements but they added that they now feel "disillusioned and abandoned".

The letter, which is understood to have been sent to Fianna Fáil TDs and senators, stated that the party's elected representatives must now step up to the plate.

"There is no united front. Our organisation is in total disarray."

The letter also warned that the Fianna Fáil executive that they should "ignore us at your peril".

The six officers from the Meath branch added that Fianna Fáil now need a person who is "capable of dealing with our devious Government partners".

They said Fine Gael are now dictating policies and terms while "we are last out of the box".



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« Reply #25 on: March 02, 2021, 12:36:48 am »
You cant be found Guilty of Corruption in Ireland as there is no irish word for corruption so ask to be tried as gailge .See while Gordon Elliott is flogging a dead mule and the Peasants are revolting and Kids are back playing with chalk and Mala .The government just sneaked out a report on doctored birthcerts  before RTE get out a programme .My old man use to tell stories of rich americans who would go on a world cruise and then come back with a new baby with thoroughbread papers to say the kid was theres and born unexpectedly in Ireland .The County Home in Tipperary which has never been mentioned in any report sold kids for their weight in dollars .What the fuck went on in this Republic .

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« Reply #26 on: March 02, 2021, 05:45:29 pm »
The sooner FF get rid of An Taoiseach the better. The spiteful old cunt is directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of pensioners.

In the event of a general election will you be supporting your local SPBP candidate, erm... given Richard Boyd-Barrett's support for our trade, particularly during the COVID '19 pandemic?

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« Reply #27 on: March 02, 2021, 10:51:47 pm »
Yer one from Kerry is changing her mind again again .Now she is saying that secondry kids wont be back unless covid numbers fall .Thats not what she said before before .


Bring back Bertie he was Great so he was .

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« Reply #28 on: March 02, 2021, 11:15:23 pm »
Yer one from Kerry is changing her mind again again .Now she is saying that secondry kids wont be back unless covid numbers fall .Thats not what she said before before .


Bring back Bertie he was Great so he was .
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« Reply #29 on: March 02, 2021, 11:25:51 pm »
I wish the cunts would get the needle for anybody that wants it and get people back to work .Its the moving of the goalposts that is pissing people off more goalpost movements that the taxithingey .

 


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