These are the groups that sat in on agreement talks.
In a 'purely democratic' approach, the Government would make and implement decisions in the national interest and the special pleadings of lobby groups would be a background hum.
There’s a list a mile long of governments around the world that were democratically elected and them chose to behave in an undemocratic fashion. Do you think that the fact that a government is democratically elected then justifies undemocratic behaviour?Purple , I agree , Governments are elected to govern and as such the Government initiated social partnership in 1987 & chose to involve the parties detailed in a previous post.
A purely democratic , government initiated process I would have thought .
The only people who should have a say in how the country is run are the Td's elected by the people. The Dail and most of the government have had no real power for the last 10 years as the country was run/carved up by the social partners, dominated by IBEC and SIPTU, and the Department of the Taoiseach. Basically That meant Bertie sitting back and letting unelected vested interest groups look after their own interests at the expense of the people who elected his government to govern. Brian Cowan has been a disaster as leader but the damage was done by Bertie.
Given that wealth of experience Mr. Geraghty sounds like an ideal appointment to me .
The appointment of Mike Soden however leaves me somewhat puzzled , perhaps his first hand knowledge of Internet policy will prove useful.
I agree, running a complete sh*t show like FAS will have given him plenty of experience for maintaining the status quo at the CB.
After the electorate has democratically decided on the formation of a Government then they are mandated to govern as they decide best - hence the advent of social partnership in 1987.
You may not agree that it was the best way to proceed but really that doesn't matter - the electorate had mandated the Government to proceed as they saw fit.
I take it then that you have no problem with the current government putting in place their 4 year plan as they have a mandate from the people to do as they see fit.
Very good point Purple, Lets see how they wriggle out of that one.
Deise is well able for anything that I throw at him (that and a good sense of humour are the reasons I enjoy discussing things with him) so I didn’t expect a knock-out blow with that last post.
I’m on Complainers ignore list because, well, who knows, so as he doesn’t see my posts I don’t expect a reply from him.
God , nobody tells me anything
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