@broadsheet_ie I'd like to welcome our hardworking TD's back after their well deserved break. Oh. pic.twitter.com/cTlUb9Jac8
— Marvel Gumshoe (@Marvel_Gumshoe) September 20, 2014
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@broadsheet_ie I'd like to welcome our hardworking TD's back after their well deserved break. Oh. pic.twitter.com/cTlUb9Jac8
— Marvel Gumshoe (@Marvel_Gumshoe) September 20, 2014
Not this old chestnut again.
I work in Leinster House. For a TD. Leinster House had TDs of all stripes present last week every day it was sitting. High numbers of TDs are present in Leinster House 5 days of the week.
But TDs are not always sitting in the Dail when it is in progress. They are in committees, in meetings, and most all in their offices, working on legislation, speeches, committee work, constituency issues, which have TV and those TVs are switched on to the Dail feed, which all TDs watch at all times.
That is actually how it is. The fact that they are not physically in the Dail chamber itself is categorically wrong.
Sorry. Late at night as I write. What I meant yo say at the end of my initial post was –
The fact that they are not physically in the Dail chamber should not be taken to mean TDs are not doing the job they are elected to do, which is to serve and represent their constituents. Such an assumption would is categorically wrong.
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They are so busy the camera angle is wrong blah blah blah wasters
the smae problem with the GAA. The camera gantry is always on the stand side. You are looking at an empty terrace, especially during the National League.
The Dail camera should be pointing to the hard working side of the House (Shinners and the Technical Group)
ye can try and justify it all you want but the way I see it, there must be something wrong with the system when such pertinent public issues are up for discussion in the Dail but yet it’s virtually empty. At the very least, in the modern media age we live in, what kind of message does this inspire in the electorate?
I mean to say , at the very least, I thought TD’s would have gotten together by now and realised an empty Dail is something to be avoided. That, and laughing frivously like some kind of “boys club” when discussing serious public issues. It’s bad PR!
Yes, because we want more time and energy spent pandering to PR and less on actual work.
Snigger – You’re one to watch out for Nigel, surely.
“They should care less about doing their job and more about appearances.”
or is it just a reflection of how redundant the Dail has become?
so when important legislation is being passed in the Dail and no one’s there, that’s fine, is it?
Well, yes. Do you think bills are passed on the basis of a majority of who turned up?
When something as important as the exemptions for the water charges is being discussed you think they could waddle themselves down from their office into the chamber. But the fact of the matter is they don’t give a toss about anything except there own selfish piece of the dail pie.
well said fella
Bet you have the box sets of the West Wing.
You’re in the system. You’ll defend it.
Out of interest, are you a family member of the TD you work for?
Cheap.
*puts cap back on bottle of gin
From January 2015 they’ll all be back at the parish pump saving their seats. Not a tap will be done in the chamber next year
Who is that lonesome figure anyhoo ?
Brutons secretary.
An Ceann Comhairle?
Talking to himself.. ‘aon duine? aon duine’?
The Android app is very crashy today. The previous 2 posts are crashing.
yeah. it’s annoying
Same problem
And hardly a TD in the house
“They are in committees, in meetings, and most all in their offices, working on legislation, speeches, committee work, constituency issues, which have TV and those TVs are switched on to the Dail feed, which all TDs watch at all times.”
Watching the live Dail feed, of eh, no one, as they’re all elsewhere? Hmmm k.
I briefly flicked between RTE’s Sunday morning mass and a replay of the week’s Dail debate, earlier.. dismal doesn’t begin to describe it.
I hear ya, I asked them for another Mass