FF clowns propose lobbyists bill

[Mitsui2]

Okay, I will take your advice and look at FG, Lab, SF and Indos tomorrow and decide which of them appeals to me. Any preference yourself as to who I should turn to ?

The best advice is the choice you're always mentioning yourself - ABFF.

[Mushroom]

Okay, I will take your advice and look at FG, Lab, SF and Indos tomorrow and decide which of them appeals to me. Any preference yourself as to who I should turn to ?

I wouldn't imagine that any party other than Fianna Fail would want you as a member, or even a supporter - Ogthing - even Sinn Féin tends to draw the line at recruiting idiots.

[Laght]

Do Fianna Fáil seem like a party that has the slightest interest in cleaning up it's act, or a delusional rump fanatically dreaming of getting the gravy train flowing again. Hoping against hope and reason, that the public will forgive or at least forget.
I vote for the second option.

Just look at the current shower on the front bench (all of them )

Spokesperson on Marine and Fisheries, TD for Wexford
C
Dara Calleary

Spokesperson on Justice, Equality and Defence, TD for Mayo
Niall Collins

Spokesperson on Environment, Community and Local Government, TD for Limerick
Barry Cowen

Spokesperson on Social Protection, TD for Laois-Offaly

D
Timmy Dooley
Spokesperson on Transport, Tourism and Sport, TD for Clare

F
Sean Fleming
Spokesperson on Public Expenditure and Reform, TD for Laois-Offaly

K
Billy Kelleher
Spokesperson on Health, TD for Cork North Central
Seamus Kirk
Spokesperson on Horticulture and Rural Affairs, TD for Louth
Michael P Kitt
Spokesperson on Housing, Planning and Gaeltacht Affairs, TD for Galway East

M
Micheál Martin
Leader and Spokesperson on Northern Ireland, TD for Cork South Central
Charlie McConalogue
Spokesperson on Children, TD for Donegal North East
Michael McGrath
Spokesperson on Finance, TD for Cork South Central
John McGuinness
Spokesperson on Small Business Regulatory Framework , TD for Carlow Kilkenny
Michael Moynihan
Spokesperson on Agriculture and Food, TD for Cork North West

Ó
Éamon Ó Cuiv
Spokesperson on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, TD for Galway West
Seán Ó Fearghaíl
Fianna Fáil Whip and Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Trade, TD for Kildare South

O
Willie O’Dea
Spokesperson on Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, TD for Limerick City

S
Brendan Smith
Spokesperson on Education and Skills, TD for Cavan Monaghan

T
Robert Troy
Spokesperson on Arts and Heritage, TD for Longford Westmeath

Timmy Dooley?... Wee Willie Winkie? FFS

You notice that Éamon Ó Cuiv is listed under Ó on Fianna Fáil's own website, not under C as the weaselly git insisted he be on the election ballot.

Go Away Fianna Fáil, let somebody with an ounce of integrity take the place of you Gombeen Dinasaurs

[Con Gallagher]

Read the posts above yours and if FG are anything like the childish muppets who wrote those posts you'll see that's exactly why they'll vote against it.

Parties in Government are always to busy and too inward looking to propose this sort of stuff, instead it's what good oppositions do. Whether it gets through or not is another matter.

But the government parties should be criticised if they vote down good legislation by rote, simply because it is ff who proposes it. They won't. It will simply be seen as part of the game. It's no wonder the Dail is so weak.

[FrankSpeaks]

Having done nothing to curb the influence of lobbyists during their tenure, why do these people feel they can bring in legislation now that they wilfully ignored while in power? It reeks of contempt for the electorate. Regulating lobbying (personally I'd ban it altogether) is something that should be done but the supreme cynicism shown by Fianna Fáil here is pretty hard to stomach and it's pretty clear this is being done for optics. No one would be as discomfited as FF and their party old guard if this bill actually made it onto the books.



FF proposes lobbyist Bill - The Irish Times - Mon, Jan 23, 2012

There was no legislation on lobbying while they were in power? Therefore how could they it ignore it! Doh!

[statsman]

Okay, I will take your advice and look at FG, Lab, SF and Indos tomorrow and decide which of them appeals to me. Any preference yourself as to who I should turn to ?

SF: they could do with the kiss of death.

[Sync]

Why will FG/Lab vote this proposal down? Is that not more significant than the fact that ff proposed it?

It would be. It's a good law. The source of it is irrelevant.

[dent]

I suspect the rat Collins is putting this forward in the anticipation that it will be defeated, but they can then claim they "tried".

[Con Gallagher]

I suspect the rat Collins is putting this forward in the anticipation that it will be defeated, but they can then claim they "tried".

Why do you anticipate that if will be defeated? Should those who defeat it not be considered as rats?

[williewatch]

First I'd like to see a public register of Fianna Fail members.

It would be good to know who these people are in light of what their government did to our country.