This morning.
Iveagh Garden Hotel, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin launches his party’s Local Election Manifesto flanked by Dublin Local Election candidates.
A total of 415 Fianna Fáil candidates will compete for council seats on May 24, of which 87 are women .
Mr Martin said:
An important part of Fine Gael housing policy in recent years has been to try and blame local authorities for the failure to build houses – while the facts show that the critical blockage remains Government restrictions and inexplicable delays which are holding back well-planned and urgently-needed projects.
Local Authorities are only allowed spend €2 million on building houses locally and we believe this should be changed but the Fine Gael government are dragging their heels.
This should be initially increased to €6million so more houses can actually be built without having to go through numerous loop holes.
Fight. etc.
Top pic from left: Fianna Fáil candidates Fiona Nolan, Claire O’Connor, Leader of Fianna Fáil Michael Martin, candidates Keith Connolly, Imran Khurshid and Helena Kelly.
Speech by FF Leader Micheál Martin at the launch of the Party’s Local Election manifesto (FF)
The two ladies in the last pic look unbelievably bored.
Micheál (in tears): “Look-it, I’ll build them with me own two hands if ye vote us back in”.
that first picture looks grim, did he host this in his shed?
Did he have to cut the launch short because ISIS had booked the room for a beheading?
€2 million increased to €6 million still won’t build many houses Michéal. Did he mean €200-€600 million?
Either way, he’s an utter charlatan. In the cabinet that brought us the IMF. Enough said.
€6 million would get you around 20 homes.
There are 31 councils so, is he talking about 600 homes? Per year? That’s nothing at this stage of the crisis.
Are houses built by local authorities generally social housing?
Could public land be used to build a private/ affordable/ social homes? That way, money from the sales of private homes could be used to build more.
We are not allowed to mention affordable homes apparently as that would broaden the ‘them and us’ narrative- it is strictly about whether social should be provided to freeloaders.
You know, from a distance he looks a bit like Putin.
Without the impressive masculine aura, naturally.
Or the horse; or was it a bear?
if you really really cared Micheál you would pull the Govt. down
gimp
It’s incredible to see people buying his old guff.
Two cheeks of the same botty.
FF are simply enablers now. Its all well and good sitting on the sideline throwing barbs at the government but FF are the ones who can bring it down tomorrow.
Between the housing crisis, the HSE, the broadband plan, the national children’s hospital….there are more than enough reasons to justify bringing down the government at this stage. Especially with Brexit now on the long finger until Halloween.
Tweedle Fail agus Tweedle Gael will keep nodding and winking at the movers and shakers in the building industry.
87 out of 415 candidates are women? That’s around 21%, which is pretty low.
Not that FF are much different than the other main parties. In my LEA there are 13 candidates, 0 women. in the whole of Sligo County Council elections, there are 7 women out of a total of 35 candidates, or 20%.
Shameful. I’m surprised there isn’t more being made of this.
In fairness, they’re 100% political eunuchs, so even if there once was a winkle, there isn’t now.
Surely some mistake, it’s “Mickey Martin announces the winners of this year’s VHI Women’s Mini-Marathon”
Mickey martin really is beginning to look like Montgomery burns from the Simpson
Has he by any chance been having plastic surgery?
Just a little tightening dear..
Excellent.
The “local” feel and faller was round the other day, told me he was local, and from the other end of the country.
So his opening statement was a lie.