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FIANNA FÁIL, FINE Gael and the Regional Independents Group have agreed a draft programme for Government after five weeks of negotiations.
The programme will be ratified by members of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael over the coming days.
The document is essentially a to do list for the government, setting out its policy commitments for the next five years. It will guide all of the government’s priorities over the coming years.
It is made up of a mix of policy proposals set out in the election manifestos of the contributing parties. A lot of these pledges did not make the cut.
Here are the main points from it broken down by area.
The document sets out how the rotating Taoiseach arrangement will work, with Micheál Martin holding the office until 16 November 2027.
It also commits the government to delivering five Budgets with a general election called no sooner than after the enactment of the principal measures to be announced in the Budget in late 2029.
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Draft programme of lies from these two pair of dix.
@Gerry Lamont: Get over yourself. We had an election, and the 2 biggest parties are in government. The people have spoken, so get on with it.
@Barry Sorensen: but there not the two biggest parties.
@Shimo F: It does not matter who is the biggest party, that is not how our system works. It is the party that can pull together enough votes to form a majority!
@Shimo F: doesn’t matter, anyway, we have much to look forward to under this new government
@Shimo F: Vote wise they are. Seat wise they’re not.
@Barry Sorensen: Most of those so called promises were wheeled out five years ago….. that went well, or did it?
@Gerry Lamont: a victory for the majority
@Shimo F: they’re..
@Barry Sorensen: Them getting elected doesn’t negate the lies and broken promisies
@Argus Romsworth: A SF FF government with independends and/or smaller parties would also be a victory for the majority, wold it not?
@Barry Sorensen: where did you saw two biggest parties ?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: No. 80% of the country did not vote for Sinn Fein. Even if you add their so-called “Like Minded” contemporaries, they were nowhere near the numbers needed to form a government. Also, take into account the other major left-leaning parties couldn’t do business with SF, then you’re back to having nothing!
@Paul Linehan: No, different programme for Government. Mostly delivered. Still a very long way to go with housing and health, but were stillninnthe top 10 best places in the world to live. Context is everything!
Nobody reads these adjectives with any faith whatsoever. JK Rowling may as well have written them. They’re just the usual bullet-points. FFGs ongoing “friendship with benefits” sham has absolutely devastated any trust or interest in Irlsh democracy/politics.
@Louis Jacob: *objectives
@Louis Jacob: It’s crazy, they need to ban convenient coalitions like this, they are going to be in power forever.
@Freda Peeple: It’s not actually a coalition which is by definition a short term solution. It’s a complete violation of democratic trust. That’s why people are losing interest.
@Freda Peeple: boo hoo, crying to your mammy again
@Argus Romsworth: Lol. Spoken like a proper child.
@Louis Jacob: cry harder
@Louis Jacob: says your man who sees it as a breakdown of democratic trust. The adults in the room are aware this government, was elected by the people, who knew they would form a coalition again just like before. It’s democracy in its purest you doom mongering infant
@Argus Romsworth: “Democracy in it’s purest… ” Purest what?
@Argus Romsworth: When you’re a bit older you might branch out and actually find our what “pure democracy” means. A small bit of knowledge comes in handy.
@Louis Jacob: you’re throwing your toys out of the pram because you didn’t get what you wanted. Probably a social democrat ie. Economy wrecker
@Argus Romsworth: Throwing my toys out of the pram. No pal. I’m just making comments on our government. Someone else here is name calling like a 10 year old child.
@Louis Jacob: so, you’re commenting on our democratically elected government?
@Liam Money: Yeah. They are our democratically elected government. I’m saying they are on shaky ground ethically with their rationalized bad-faith arrangement. And they know it.
Tell me this? Why don’t they become one party officially? What would they have to lose?
@Louis Jacob: it’s a rock solid, stable government, they’ve got a healthy majority now, regardless of what Journal comments section whingers, like yourself, say
@Argus Romsworth: comments ignored again :) a man of zero substance or interest
@Liam Money: It’s all ad hominem with you guys. I wonder why you’re so defensive.
@Freda Peeple: Smart man. He realised he didn’t know what he was talking about.
@Freda Peeple: I see you and Louise responding
@Louis Jacob: two social democrats with their ears pierced.
@Argus Romsworth: Lol. Idle speculation suits you.
@Louis Jacob: I’m eagerly awaiting next weeks ep of first dates. You and Freda with the curly mullets out talking about hollie kearns and your ear piercings hahaha
@Argus Romsworth: Hahahaha. You are so wrong. Funny image though.
@Louis Jacob: And every one of them independants I guarantee told their children ” you are who you hang around with ” lordy we are some nation of hippocrits….
And in 5 years time none of it be achieved, and it will all be rehashed for the next shower to lies to us
@Shimo F: All aspirational promises, no firm commitments. All the lies told by Micheal Martin & Simon Harris prior to Election, now shown up as Electioneering Lies, shameless Liars, both of them rotten to the core. A man whom a Tribunal found to have been corrupt the main negotiator for Govt, a Ceann Comhairle accused of Bullying & taking out an NDA. Boxer Moran running around cameras like The Bird in the film The Field, the Healy Rae’s dictating power, seen today coming out of negotiations with the lad that beat the shit out of an innocent visitor to Kerry. Mr Votegate in line for a senior Ministry after trampling all over Democracy in the Dail. This is the depths we have descended to in Ireland, White Collar crime alive & thriving in this Govt.
@SV3tN8M4: the funniest promise from Harris during the election trail was that they would be financially responsible and stay within budget increase recommendations from the ERSI of no more than 5%. 2025s budget is 120 billion, up 11 billion from 2024s of 109 billion. Literally their last budget!!!!!…. Funnily 2025s budget is also up 43 billion from 77 billion in 2019, that’s right, FOURTY THREE BILLION more in 6 years (55.8%)…… This is so reckless and unchecked and it will ruin the tax payer when there is a global shock. Ie the multinationals start leaving. How will they cut their budgets now that they’ve swelled so much?!?! Can’t wait for more generations ruined and 60%+ tax rates. Beggars belief!
@SV3tN8M4: Fablousy written John ,and that is it ….
Promise everything deliver very little then start all over again
This program for government is under serious threat from Trumps plan to rehome our FDI billions and the fallout from enacting the occupied territories bill. Putting Harris as the heavy hitter to meet the Trump threat is almost as funny as it is tragic. The outlook is decidedly rocky, unfortunately.
@honey badger: Your pro-Israel agenda seeps into everything you touch.
We should do the right thing, and stand up fearlessly for human rights.
@Brendan O’Brien: If doing “the right thing” involves literally zero benefit to Palestinians and potentially multi-billion euro losses to us, then I fundamentally disagree with you.
It will amount to the single greatest act of national self-harm in our states history. I’m pro Israel, of course, but the potential implications are vast. Which parts of the program for government will you be comfortable with getting the axe?
@honey badger: No it is not, he has enough problems. Our billions are in the bank and if he changes the tax laws to attack our system. He will lose Billions.
@honey badger: No wonder the country is so fecked up.
@honey badger: So your moral standards are dependant not on simple right and wrong but on cost and benefit?
Charming!
Really looking forward to 5 years of this new government, I think it will prove to be one of the best in the history of the state
@Liam Money: You’re just a multi-ID troll looking for a reaction, though.
@Brendan O’Brien: excuse me?
@Liam Money: Your carers will be thrilled at least you half brain
@Freda Peeple: that’s a nasty comment
@Liam Money: behind the many many profiles lies a very sad dilapidated human being with a grim existence. The attention you crave now is what was lacking in your formative years, that can never be recovered.
Some day, you two are going to traumatise some poor new fella lol
@Liam Money: Best laugh if nothing else
@Liam Money: correct! Fisher-Price troll :) glad I touched a nerve. The truth hurts haha
@Brendan O’Brien: it’s tired Jim’s new profile
@Liam Money: new?
Why recruit construction works from abroad?
Similar to a military draft – but optional – if a young person leaves school, if they do two years on a construction site, they get college for free and an allowance for the four years of a degree – and of course they get paid for their work.
Simpler and easier in the long term.
@Christopher Ryan: Construction doesn’t require only labourers.
@Christopher Ryan: I’ve actually spoken about this very thing to one of my local Tds several times. I also think that if someone works in construction on or hospitality as young adults, there should be special schemes in place specifically for them when they reach their 40s.
These occupations are far too valuable to the country for such little reward.
@Christopher Ryan: It takes years to train tradesmen to qualify! It is tradesmen and women we are missing!
@Brendan O’Brien: But Labouring is where a lot of people start. No better way to figure out if you’re cut out for hard work or not….
@Gary Kearney: No shortage of potential apprentices in those trades. The problem is that they are seen as a last resort these days, instead of a potential career. They also spend a lot of time labouring due to the shortage of labour.
Increasing free GP services for under 12 – wasn’t that promised last time (and the time before) – and the GPs said no, they would rather charge sick kids full price.
‘What are you going to do about house prices?’
‘Pump them up even more of course!’
@Ronan Mc: Wut?.. How are the govt going to increase the value of my house?
I’m elated!!
Should read: pair of dix.
@Gerry Lamont: most of the electorate are happy
@Argus Romsworth: how do you figure that? for example.. over two thirds of the electorate didn’t vote fg… with most notes going to ff and sf so there is a huge amount of people who didn’t want fg back in the room..
@Stiles: but FG got the second highest vote, ya simp
@Stiles: everyone who voted ff knew it was to be in a coalition with FG. And the reverse.
@Argus Romsworth: most are struggling. Happiness doesn’t factor in.
@Shimo F: most are more well off than any other period in Irish history. Inequality way below what’s seen in us and U.K.
@Liam Money: ehhh… dont think so.. SF got 39 seats.. FG got 38 if memory serves me.. so FG came third.. and stop saying simp cuz it sounds like you’re trying to be an American vlogger . I use the word jinit when dealing with folk like yourself.. try that..
Open the children’s hospital. Fair play to ye lad’s and lassies. No doubt ye will be all falling over each other to make a speech that day and tell the peasants what a great achievement it is and how grateful we should be.
Banning face coverings at protests… oh how times change.
All I read was Blah Blah Blah. 99.9% broken promises rehashed and reworked as a manifesto come next election.
Complete bull. Pumping up houses prices again which are already unaffordable for most workers. Promises of more teachers when 5000 are abroad on sabbatical abroad. Etc etc.
More Government bull on carers allowance yet again they fall at the first hurdle
Create 300,000 new jobs?… we don’t have that many unemployed in the country. Pure fiction
@Paul Murphy: More Open Borders & dishing out Work Permits. Can’t house 15,000 Homeless Irish people or the thousands of young people still living with parents but we will bring hundreds of thousands of Immigrants & Work Permits.
They need to ammend the “pretending we’re still 2 different parties” policy. 2 cheeks of the same hole ridin each other side ways. Of course they’ll never come together because as soon as they do they’ll ve out voted.
5 Gold rings and a Partridge in a pear tree!
Did I miss the section on agriculture or a possible early retirement scheme for farmers ?
Thr metropolitan areas get increased bus services. The rural areas on the commuter belts get ignored again. There’s a vast need for further BUSES THAT ACTUALLY RUN. In that vane, Bus Éireann needs vast reform as it is no longer fit for purpose – if it ever was? That doesn’t mean privatisation.
This is a government we can all get behind.
@Argus Romsworth: Oh look another protagonist haha. It’s hilarious how your comments are ignored
@Freda Peeple: I see you didn’t ignore it
@Argus Romsworth: The only reason I’d get behind them is if they were standing at the edge of a cliff, so I could give them a little nudge.
@Argus Romsworth: yeah with a big strap on, give them a taste of what we’re constantly getting..
@Maire Hicks: speak for yourself Maire haha
Thought at least every parish would get a new pump.
FULL OF AIR THEY CANT PLAN FOR TOMORROW NEVER MIND 5 YEARS TIME
‘Childcare cuts’ had me wondering … seems a little misleading.
@Brendan O’Brien: a set of traffic lights is misleading for you lol
Some laugh , half the policies for each party gone, might as well merge as they are now 2 ends of the same cu nt
With the disability section all it needed to say was Implement the UNCRPD.
Do that and all those bullet pointed items are done automatically.
UNCRPD means the United nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
The UN realised that the disability community’s Civil and Human Rights were being ignored and launched this convention almost sixty years after the original UN Convention on Human Rights.
Better late than never, now to get it implemented across government! That is being blocked by certain departments and people of a particular political beliefs!
So more of the same old nonsense then. Doubling down on failed interventionist policies in the housing market, price controls on childcare, no tax cuts, bankrupting the state pension system by not even raising the age to 68, more costly climate programs, more subsidies for universities who don’t need it, scrapping means testing for the Carers’ Allowance which prevents fraud and throwing even more money at the HSE despite funding nearly doubling since 2015 with significantly worse outcomes. This government outline is a real gut punch to taxpayers across Ireland who want to see their money being spent wisely. Another five years under FG/FF where we will see the national debt increase with every budget.
Retain our crazy high taxation regime so government can continue spending.
I see a good few bullet points in housing, but not one of them tries to address affordability, just feeding the beast.
Makes no difference anyway. We are owned by the EU now.
Lies,lies and more lies
Paiir of dangerous individuals.
I hope they get a better and more powerful police force to be able to deal with these individuals
Lets measure delivery each year over 4 years. I’d suspect delivery of the very low hanging fruit only and not reaching 20% overall. The challenging external economic and political environment will be cited as the main excuses.
Contactless payments really shouldn’t be a big deal to fix.
Absolute gangster’s
We are in serious trouble in this country now, we will be in a painful recession in two years time with this shower ffg in government again, the cost of everything predicts that, the ffg mentality everyone is welcome from around the world come and we will give you a free house, while our own people have minium 400k to pay for a home, but they are shafted again by the vulture funds facilitated by ffg, very stupid people in this country
Five years will fly ,Independants will die ,same as the Greens …The cute hoors were bought, they are now sorted for life as the Picture of Boxer Moran will attest to ffs,how far we have come ,Polotics be Polotics ,well done the negotiators ,I’m staying at home the next time .
Need to see an increase for those with both Mental & Physical Disabilities in the Workforce
What about an integrated transport strategy where airports, bus services, rail and light rail are all connected up nationwide? Develop rail to DUB/SNN and perhaps light rail to ORK airports, make public transport easy and expansive where you don’t have to back track miles out of your way to get where you want to go?
That’s the only way to reduce car ownership.
Could not care less about any of it just keep CGT tax as low as possible.
All our family will vote FF/FG forever if they open Crown Paints and Thornton Hall asylum centres! That is what Ireland urgently need. People cannot sleep on the streets!
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