FF backbenchers to lobby Gormley to ease up on Green Party policies

[DCon]

Is Gormley playing Senior hurling now??

John McGuinness, the former junior minister, and Sean Connick, a Wexford TD, said they intend to ask for a dilution of the carbon tax, in order to minimise the impact it will have on transport, tourism and agriculture.

A number of TDs, including Mary Wallace and Thomas Byrne from Meath, Daragh O’Brien and Michael Kennedy from North Dublin, and Mattie McGrath from Tipperary South, will also be putting pressure on Gormley to row back on plans to introduce a ban on stag hunting.

Reform of local authority will also be on the agenda, with Fianna Fail TDs anxious to protect the power of local authorities in contrast to the Greens’ plans for regional power structures.

A spokesman for Gormley said the minister would be “delighted” to talk to Fianna Fail TDs about their concerns. “The minister was invited to attend the meeting to discuss the Dog Breeding Establishments Bill, and he will be happy to talk about any other issues that come under the remit of his department,” he said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7017993.ece

[FakeViking]

Is Gormley playing Senior hurling now??

More like special needs under 13 tiddlywinks.

[bogmanjoe]

I would hope these all to quiet backbenchers will step out of
the shadows and take control of the up coming climate change
bill about to be introduced by the Dept of Enviorment.
This bill must include a lifting of the ban on test drilling for
Uranium in Donegal, and a repeal of the law forbidding
Nuclear Energy in Ireland. Not to mention ending the Greens
ambition to increase the cost of heating our homes during
a low point in solar activity. The madness of the Green agenda
must be stopped in it,s tracks.

[MPB]

Only in Ireland could you have a situation whereby an insignificant lobby group with just 3% support nationally could have so much control over the lives of its citizens and its economy.

These economic retards know no other way but tax to drive their agenda and they will lead to the absolute ruination of this country economically. They are going to make it impossible to maintain or create jobs in the country.

We need complete reform and part of this reform should state that no political party should be allowed enter a coalition Govt. unless they have at least 12 seats in the Dail.

[Pauli]

Only in Ireland could you have a situation whereby an insignificant lobby group with just 3% support nationally could have so much control over the lives of its citizens and its economy.

These economic retards know no other way but tax to drive their agenda and they will lead to the absolute ruination of this country economically. They are going to make it impossible to maintain or create jobs in the country.

We need complete reform and part of this reform should state that no political party should be allowed enter a coalition Govt. unless they have at least 12 seats in the Dail.

That should have been in place in 1997. We would have been spared a lot of crap.

[charley]

the green party would let our children starve to protect frogs,
this shower of wasters have been a place in government that they have no right to,their stupid agenda is being forced on the people of this island so that 75 gobsh1tes can stay in power, this cannot continue the green menace must be destroyed,

[FakeViking]

Only in Ireland could you have a situation whereby an insignificant lobby group with just 3% support nationally could have so much control over the lives of its citizens and its economy.

It's actually worse than that. The former Greens are told they have influence over our lives, but in reality they're just lobby fodder for the gombeens who profit out of our existence. Since they went into power, we've seen more roads, less public transport, incinerators (Gormley's faux outrage on this is positively laughable), and stealth taxes left right and centre. Anyone for a slice of Planet Gormless?

[charley]

the extra charges on bins will only increase illegal dumping,the removal of tax back for bin charges is just removing more money from the economy, the ship is sinking and gormley is busy boring more holes to bring it down faster, the man is shameless scum he busies himself licking the tartles off fianna fail's hairy arse while the country falls around him

[ibis]

So the Greens are laughable and pathetic because they have achieved nothing of the Green agenda in government and have allowed FF to do whatever they like - yet need to be stopped by FF before their implementation of the Green agenda destroys the country?

Whatever stick is handiest, I suppose.

[Húrin]

Ibis it's not as if all green party critics speak with one voice. Some are from column A, some from column B.