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THE NEW LEADER of the Green Party will be announced this morning.
There are two candidates who are looking to take over from Eamon Ryan - Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Roderic O’Gorman and Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity in the Department of Agriculture Senator Pippa Hackett.
Ryan announced that he would be stepping down at the end of last month. He first took over as party leader in 2011, after the Greens were decimated in the general election.
He led them to record-breaking victories in the locals in 2019 and the 2020 general election.
Since the leadership race began, two Green Party hustings have taken place and members have been voting online for the last three days.
O’Gorman’s core campaign message is that he wants the party to have a greater focus on social issues.
Hackett meanwhile believes there has been “a disconnect” between the voters and what the party is trying to achieve. She said she believes her role now is to bridge those divides.
We spoke to both candidates about their priorities during the campaign. Here’s what they had to say.
A number of contenders have also said they are vying for the deputy leadership of the party.
The returning officers will announce the result of the vote of party members this morning and the new leader will address the audience after 11am.
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How the other half live eh?
But seriously though, doing well for a 28 year old, keep it up!
@Mary Walshe: indeed. Bring home the bacon despite no bacon
Good job! That’s my base salary here and I surely don’t have 10k after the taxes (which are used for only god’s know what with poor healthcare, poor education, expensive childcare, poor public service overall).
@Yvon Queguiner:
Poor Education?
@Yvon Queguiner: Education is the only service we’ve had that is decent, but yea slowly it’s being torn apart by misguided Irish opinion. Also add Housing and Transport.
@thesaltyurchin: Despite unrealistic public expectation and far too much of the funding wasted in bureaucracy, Ireland’s Health service is world class.
Before anyone says anything about the salary it’s very average for the UAE. As a past resident if I can one piece of advice to the 28 year old consultant. DO NOT take out any loans or credit cards that’s how they get to keep you as you are stuck if you do
Riveting!! Zzzzzzzzz
For some odd reason Engineering consultants in Ireland get half the rate than on the continent. The average charge out rate for a civil Engineer in Scandinavia is the equivalent of 188 euros an hour.
1125 for rent in the UAE , you wouldn’t get a bed sit in Waterford for that
@David Chadwick: yea but we’re all living the dream here.
@David Chadwick: well your property here probably wasn’t built using slave labour like there.
A salary of 120k is just over 1% of workers in ireland. But 54% are college educated in Ireland. From Revenue’s “Analysis of High Income Individuals”
@Communist Party: Well, ~14% of workers in Ireland are above €100k according to recent statistics perpetuated by Newstalk. I doubt €120k is a hard ceiling for said individuals.
He’s a peasant with that salary over there when everyone and their grandma drives a Rolls Royce.
@Kieran Menon: and you’re point being?
@Fuji Hakayito: he is
@Kieran Menon: Certainly not a peasant, on that salary he has a good standard of living. Remember it’s tax free, his healthcare is paid for, and by the way the healthcare system here is world class. VAT is only 5%, the weather is incredible 8 months of the year and petrol is far cheaper than back home. I live here too so I can attest to this. So he’s definitely doing better than he would be back in Ireland, that I know for sure
Fair play.
Work hard, take risks, get rewarded.
In Ireland people who do this are vilified by the Left and taxed mercilessly to pay for the perpetually lazy.
@Paul: You really do need to get over yourself and stop blaming everybody but yourself for your bad decisions that left you paying for someone else to live in ‘your’ house. It’s not the fault of ‘the left’, it’s yours and yours alone. Be a big boy now and own it and stop stamping your feet like a child whose ice-cram just fell on the floor.
fair play to you, far away hills are not green, make sure you dont come home !!
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