The Green Party’s Roderic O’Gorman, Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin at the party’s election manifesto launch in Molesworth Gallery, Dublin this morning
Green Party want to set up a citizens trust fund with 5,000 euro to each child which matures after 20 years & then spent for ed #ge16
— Martina Fitzgerald (@MartinaFitzg) February 12, 2016
Read the manifesto here
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Perhaps ensuring that third level fees are abolished permanently – free/more affordable school books would be a better idea?
You could be right, but fees for 3rd level would perhaps influence more within the college (wages, faculties etc) and may be harder to remove at this stage.
I wonder where they intend on getting the 5k per child to start with.
Is that based on the idea that everyone should go to 3rd level / Uni? ….or could it be used on say, training in use of skyscraper cranes / a few years in Letterfrack?
There’s too much focus on uni as it is.
That’s a good point Clampers, there is. It can be damaging to hold some professions to be many times more superior to another, we should be encouraging the vocational draw to employment/education.
Yeah, fair point. The idea of a flexible 5k investment in education makes far more sense. But still… where does the 5k come from.
Shut your face, this is Ireland where logic has no place when it comes to insuring fair affordable schooling for all.
It’s an interesting idea, but a) where’s the money coming from and b) won’t it end up being plundered/devalued the way pensions funds are?
At current long-term interest rates that’d give the kid about, oh, 6k. Not really a huge leg up if they do the obvious counter-part of this of hiking fees.
Green Party manifesto:
Housing: Hope that private pension funds invest in social housing
Give away publicly owned land for social housing
Replace property tax with a land tax, all that set aside in use as a garden is going to cost Farmers a fortune
Bring in unconstitutional rent controls
Transport:
Change the sequence of traffic lights so the elderly don’t get mowed down at pedestrian crossings, a daily occurrence in Ireland
Build green stuff
Fit trucks with beepers to alert cyclists,
Keep roads in public ownership, or else in private ownership
Build metro north, or else don’t build metro north
Better rail station facilities for travellers to include Ford Transit parking, bare knuckle boxing rings and designated zones for dumping rubbish
Energy. Build green stuff
Water: Replace water meters with smart meters.
Flooding. Ah here, we’re not God
Food and Agriculture. Grow food (no mention of the greenhouse gases caused by cattle, 20% of our total)
Waste: Hand control of waste management and disposal to private industry
Education. Make changes. Maintain the grossly unfair 3rd level fee structure as is
Health. Patient centred care, help sick people. Telephone and Internet services to help patients deal with illness.( Can you shove the web cam up your jacksie Madam?)
Free heroin for all
Crime: Commit to funding the recruitment of 2,000 new Gardaí in the lifetime of the
next Government.( This won’t even replace those who leave, but hey ho)
Sentencing guidelines for Judges to ignore
Victim liaison officers to provide tea and sympathy to victims of crime
Immigration. Implement a free for all
Minimum wage. Freeze at the current rate
Seanad reform. Keep all Seanad seats for divvying up between political parties.
Cease funding of administration of health, education and social welfare from central funds and make Local Authorities raise the money themselves
Defence: Bring in conscription
And if that’s not ambitious enough the Greens will:
Reform of the World Trade Organisation, International Monetary Fund and
World Bank to make them accountable,
On a serious note, this has to be the worst document I’ve ever read in terms of concrete discrete changes that can be implemented. Terrible stuff.
I thought our cattle contributed 40% of our greenhouse gases…..
And the target for the country was to reduce it to 20%?
Hahahahaha! You’re so obsessed with Dan you read the whole thing!
I could never vote for someone called Roderic
Pontius Pilate: Who is this “Wodewick” you speak of?
Man in crowd: He’s a wobber!
Free Wroger, the wrampant Wroman wrapist!!!
You win the Friday Internet Dón….
Your Prize?
You get to be my Virtualentine this weekend
*hugs screen*
Ah, a numbers game is it Clamps?
I’m in!!
*licks your face*
How about our teenagers get summer jobs or some evening work and when they reach 21 they get a tax rebate or discount to the value of the rebate on any uni course or apprenticeship they wish to do.. or just give students a slab of cans if you want their vote so badly..