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There are currently 21 Independents in the Dail and I expect they will have more by the next General Election.
SF should win the next election as I expect them to have about 60 seats by running two candidates in each of the 39 constituencies. Last they ran only one in each constituency but would have won far more seats by running at least two and would have been able to form a government with the 21 Independents especially if the Independents form a large formal group - even a separate party - and they would have had a healthy majority.
Next time, if they exceed that number, which they will easily do, given the current government's total ignoring of country issues the Independents, as a formal group along with SF will get an overall majority.
The Independent group actually sought to join the government at the last election but were only few and not organised so unfortunately FF and FG opted for the Greens. They are far more organised now and will be far more organised before the next election at the latest so it will be goodbye to the Greens.
Unfortunately we have to wait until 2026 for the next official election but perhaps FF and FG will realise they are being led by the nose and the b***s by the Greens and realise, if they want a future, they will have to dump them long before the election or they will be for the birds. A good time to dump the Greens could be the switch of governments in December of this year when FG take over the lead from FF and could co-opt the Independents instead.
Wishful thinking, but we live in hope.
https://www.thejournal.ie/rural-independent-tds-government-formation-5005658-Feb2020/
Flambio,it's like going up against the church of old in Ireland.
What irks me is when the whole of Europe scrounges for oil and gas to thwart Russia , the Greens are happy to sponge off the much stressed Norweigen supplies without any shame.
Below is a letter in todays sindo from the secretary of the rural independence group containing TD like Michael Collins, mattie McGrath etc. About time something like this happened.
Sir — The majority of households and small businesses in Ireland are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis on multiple fronts. Against this backdrop, Ireland is facing an existential threat to the cost of food and its energy security.
Despite these significant challenges, our Government has failed to address these seismic issues in any meaningful way. The energy crisis is made worse still by the Government's policy on energy, which is imprisoned by the narrow ideological position of the Green Party. It is now clear the Greens are wielding the power in government on key energy policy decisions.
The Government seems happy to proceed on this basis, as it means holding on to power and their ambition for a full five-year term, in spite of the potential consequences of doing so.
The Green Party's ideology has been laid bare since the Russian invasion. After all, their policy means closing down our own national resource supply of oil and gas, meaning we must import from anywhere that will supply us, at whatever price is dictated by exporters — including Russia. Such a policy approach may go down well at Green Party meetings, but it will send this country and our people down a dangerous path.
Change is needed. Ireland must have the option of developing its own oil and gas supplies in the Celtic Sea at Barryroe, where industry projections indicate there are 365 million barrels of oil and gas. That gas has currently been accepted as a transition fuel to green alternatives.
Government policy ignores that we will continue to need natural gas to anchor our electricity network for a long time to come. Importing the fuel will not only create a much larger carbon footprint, it will be costlier and leave us extremely vulnerable to supply and price shocks.
So far, the only political group in Dáil Éireann to raise these concerns has been the Rural Independent Group.
Continuing down the current path means the cost-of-living crisis will only worsen. And when energy supplies run low, we are at the end of the pipeline, so fuel will probably be reduced to a trickle.
The only logical route available is to detangle the Government's mistaken energy policies and ensure the development of Barryroe oil and gas, which, after all, is environmentally superior to what is being imported and would harness the required energy security while reducing the costs for everyone here.
John Hanafin,
General secretary of the Rural Independent Group