Devolved power?

[Slim Buddha]

When cornered lash out at the messenger eh?

You just dodged the issues again. Your scheme is fatally flawed for the reasons I gave. All the ould tosh about Switzerland can't deflect from that.

Your points were answered.
Your own tosh in reply is simply to put your fingers in your ears plough on with your own agenda.

Lash out at the messenger? What is the bloody message? "Ah, shure, we´re fine lads! Croke Park is still in place and all we need is a few more rural ministers to bring home the bacon!"

Jesus wept!

[Baron von Biffo]

Your points were answered.
Your own tosh in reply is simply to put your fingers in your ears plough on with your own agenda.

Lash out at the messenger? What is the bloody message? "Ah, shure, we´re fine lads! Croke Park is still in place and all we need is a few more rural ministers to bring home the bacon!"

Jesus wept!

Your bits wouldn't have fallen off if you acknowledged that you hadn't thought this thing through.

The idea that Donegal with its poverty of infrastructure and public services could compete with Dublin to attract investment is so silly that a primary school child would laugh at it.

To suggest that a slightly different way of allocating taxes could see hospitals, universities, courts, cultural facilities and all the rest provided in 10 regions is manifestly stupid.

Believing that Dublin people will vote to pay the taxes necessary to maintain their current level of services shows a complete detachment from reality.

Sorry Slim, you could scream yourself blue in the face telling us how much thicker than the Swiss we are but still no-one would vote for your grand folly.

[Slim Buddha]

Your bits wouldn't have fallen off if you acknowledged that you hadn't thought this thing through.

The idea that Donegal with its poverty of infrastructure and public services could compete with Dublin to attract investment is so silly that a primary school child would laugh at it.

To suggest that a slightly different way of allocating taxes could see hospitals, universities, courts, cultural facilities and all the rest provided in 10 regions is manifestly stupid.

Believing that Dublin people will vote to pay the taxes necessary to maintain their current level of services shows a complete detachment from reality.

Sorry Slim, you could scream yourself blue in the face telling us how much thicker than the Swiss we are but still no-one would vote for your grand folly.

But by your logic, Switzerland is a failed state
Jesus wept (again!)
You really need to get out a bit more.

[Baron von Biffo]

But by your logic, Switzerland is a failed state
Jesus wept (again!)
You really need to get out a bit more.

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[Baron von Biffo]

A short article in the Indo gives us a peep at the sort of issues that would have to be addressed before people would vote in favour of the proposal in this thread.

When a jogger in Letterkenny was struck by a car he had to wait 48 minutes for an ambulance to take him to hospital.

Generations of sucking resources out of the regions has resulted in this appalling level of service and the proposed federalisation would set the inequality in stone.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...e-3250373.html

[Slim Buddha]

A short article in the Indo gives us a peep at the sort of issues that would have to be addressed before people would vote in favour of the proposal in this thread.

When a jogger in Letterkenny was struck by a car he had to wait 48 minutes for an ambulance to take him to hospital.

Generations of sucking resources out of the regions has resulted in this appalling level of service and the proposed federalisation would set the inequality in stone.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...e-3250373.html

THis belongs on your bean caoineadh thread

[Baron von Biffo]

THis belongs on your bean caoineadh thread

How would you feel about competing for Ireland in the next Olympics? I reckon if we put an awkward truth behind you Bolt would be eating your dust.

[Slim Buddha]

How would you feel about competing for Ireland in the next Olympics? I reckon if we put an awkward truth behind you Bolt would be eating your dust.

What are you smoking, Biffo? I know the gardai are stretched these days but they still might be interested.

You moaned about madical facilities in Donegal on the wrong thread. It really should have been on your rural bellyache thread and not on a thread on federalism.

For your guide, University Hospital, Basel advertised last year in the south German press looking for patients because they were not able to use up capacity as efficiently as they wanted.

No fear of that happening in Ireland!!!!

YOU are against federalism because you refuse to take responsibility for your own affairs and want to be spoon-fed but God help anyone who tries to take away your bib.
You like the current system because you have a bogeyman "up in Dublin" who you can blame for your woes.

It is so sad, sad that this infantile mentality persists in rural Ireland
It is going to get much worse when farmers children have to pay for their university education, especially if a way if found for the first time to tax farmer properly. And when the childrens allowance/beer money is touched, listen for the howls of protest!

But sure, half of them begrudge paying a fiver for a septic tank. And sure why wouldn't they, since they never paid for anything at all yet.

[Baron von Biffo]

What are you smoking, Biffo? I know the gardai are stretched these days but they still might be interested.

You moaned about madical facilities in Donegal on the wrong thread. It really should have been on your rural bellyache thread and not on a thread on federalism.

For your guide, University Hospital, Basel advertised last year in the south German press looking for patients because they were not able to use up capacity as efficiently as they wanted.

No fear of that happening in Ireland!!!!

YOU are against federalism because you refuse to take responsibility for your own affairs and want to be spoon-fed but God help anyone who tries to take away your bib.
You like the current system because you have a bogeyman "up in Dublin" who you can blame for your woes.

It is so sad, sad that this infantile mentality persists in rural Ireland
It is going to get much worse when farmers children have to pay for their university education, especially if a way if found for the first time to tax farmer properly. And when the childrens allowance/beer money is touched, listen for the howls of protest!

But sure, half of them begrudge paying a fiver for a septic tank. And sure why wouldn't they, since they never paid for anything at all yet.

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