Anti waste charge protestors wait for the arrival of Minister Simon Coveney at South Dublin County Council offices pic.twitter.com/H3rhxpFtTs
— Samantha Libreri (@SamanthaLibreri) June 20, 2016
Samantha Libreri tweetz:
Anti waste charge protestors wait for the arrival of Minister Simon Coveney at South Dublin County Council offices.
Meanwhile, in Glasnevin…
Yikes.
This won’t end well.
Thanks John Nisbet
Previously: Another Phil Mess
Well fly tipping is already a massive problem in my area. I can’t see how ramping up the charges is going to make that any better. Glad to see Ireland has remembered how to protest. Shame we couldn’t manage that during FFs reign. We might have less problems to deal with today. I suppose we can thank Alan Kelly and Phil Hogan for this newfound activism. Every cloud……;)
If people could *also* start protesting greedy CEOs, as well as politicians, that’d be swell. It does my head in when you hear some people talking about “market forces” when it comes to extortionate prices/rates as if my mate’s landlord had no choice but to increase his rent by about 40% from the previous *12 month* lease.
What do CEO’s have to do with your mate’s standard lease?
*woosh* It’s about the general culture of greed and how we excuse it in this country.
Leave him be, he has to defend the rights of greedy ceo’s, like uncle tom arguing in favour of his masters
You’re getting close to a coherant troll Moyest, keep it up
I’ll never take your title of Broadsheet’s King Troll though, Rotide.
Hey now… ABM may be absent, but he/she still holds that crown ! :)
I think he just changed his name
Hang on, how is protesting against a minimum-50% price hike by privately-run utility companies (no cartel here, so sir) a bad thing? Can’t we have both?
I also don’t think people participating in water charges protests would consider the jettisoning of either John Tierney or Jerry Grant into outer space a bad thing. Isn’t criticism of the CEO implicit when you’re protesting a specific company?
“Hang on, how is protesting against a minimum-50% price hike by privately-run utility companies (no cartel here, so sir) a bad thing? Can’t we have both?”
I never said it was a bad thing. I did say we could say we could have both. “If people could *also* start protesting greedy CEOs, *as well as politicians*, that’d be swell.”
“Isn’t criticism of the CEO implicit when you’re protesting a specific company?”
Implicit isn’t good enough.
Time to don the grey tracksuit.
Then sit around and do nuttin’.
Yay!
* flicks fag end in front of passing pram, pushes chest ouh and says *
Wha! ?
What do we want public services, when do we want to pay for them never
Oh have people stopped paying tax now?
Do we operate at a surplus? Is our budget balanced? Does out tax take match our public expenditure, find out the answers to this and more with basic economics!
Basic economics? Like people paying taxes for public services? Good man.
Yeah a public that expects Nordic levels of social welfare and public service while paying have the tax! 2+2 = 4 4-10 means you either pay more or get less
And all the pre-election polls were saying that people favoured public services *over* tax cuts. What are you basing your claim that these Irish citizens don’t want to pay for services on then?
There’s money to throw grants at golf clubs and theatres that nobody goes to, but they can’t figure out how to collect the bins?
Household charges? development charges? money paid for a service to be provided, if not give it back
@ Wayne.F
What do we want public services, when do we want to pay for them never
It is not unreasonable that when people pay for a public service they have some level of accountability as to how their money is spent. A bunch of chancers hiding under the invisible cloak of privatisation should be brought to heel, otherwise the cost of paying for that service will continue to rise.
Gettit now?
“What do we want?”:
“wehaventagreedoursloganyetsomethingandwewantitnowboohisspoliticiansarebad”
Irish politicians on a whole are rubbish, lazy,ignorant, greedy little shytes who care for nothing or no one but themselves. Wanting to be a politician should automatically ban you from being one.
Arthur C Clarke said that back in the 80’s but no one listens
I have a good bin service from my “bin collectors”, however this new intended regime ( brought in by AK47 Kelly) is simply an attempt at price gouging by private companies. The same will eventually happen with water charges.
Welcome to the world of ‘for profit’ provision of public services. It is the new religion and you are not allowed to ask common sense questions of it.
I do not know, first the water, now the bins, again, what next, fresh air tax.
Ohh.
They might even think of spending/wasting €40million+ on a postcode system that nobody uses!
How about reactivating the evoting system. If you vote against our local and EU betters wishes the machine simply reboots and ask you to vote again until you get it right