Dail Independents

[Macy]

Reduced us to what?

Voting for the likes of Clare Daly?

Random posts, out of nowhere, after feckin years?

[mypost]

HALLIGAN, John

Has had a sleepy 4 months since his election, bar one appearance on RTE recently.

In the news yesterday, for waking from his slumber during the opening Dail session. The day's business had to be interrupted for him to calm down, the CC to throw him out, and hand him a suspension. He had legitimate grievances over recent job losses in his constituency, but on the positive side, the Dail has been restructured as to allow TD's the chance to debate current issues at length. Until yesterday, the Adjournment Debates didn't quite cut the mustard.

[BonnieShels]

I'm sure Deputy Halligan was chatting away with the relevant ministers over the summer about jobs in Waterford and didn't just want til the first day of the Dáil to be on camera.

[mypost]

Mick Wallace the latest Independent in the doghouse.

Many Independents have lined up to condemn him and to tell everyone that taxes must be paid. The same Independents who were telling people not to pay their €100 tax bill in March.

[thebooboys]

Small difference between protesting against a e100 charge amounting to a few hundred million nationally and Wallace's 2.1 million fraud.

[Macy]

They're on dodgy ground advocating people avoid one tax, and then condemning one of their own for avoiding a different tax, regardless of the amount imo. Just fed the right wing media who've loved sticking the boot into the supposed hypocrisy. SF have managed to walk the tightrope of being anti the household charge, without telling people not to pay it.

[mypost]

Small difference between protesting against a e100 charge amounting to a few hundred million nationally and Wallace's 2.1 million fraud.

The difference is not important, the principle is. Imagine him standing up in the Dail to lecture on Burton's latest anti-fraud measures?

Wallace has now resigned from the Technical Group.