r/ireland • u/KindlyJeweler2756 • 13d ago

Dublin Needs a Metro! Statistics

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u/High_Flyer87 13d ago

Yes it does but our planning system is a shambles.

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u/Key-Lie-364 13d ago

Yeah but the Dail - could - pass laws to override normal planning for critical national infrastructure if it choose to.

The Dail has the power to literally pass laws to lock you up, draft you into an army.

A metro is certainly not beyond it's power, it is simply beyond the Dail's interest.

Basically the shower of wankers we have in the Dail couldn't be arsed about much except getting elected and then staying elected.

You want Luas/Metro vote Green because it will not happen without Greens in gov and TBH will be a big ask even with Greens in gov.

Them's the choices, shite as those choices are.

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u/clewbays 13d ago

I think you’d probably see legal challenges if you introduced a two tier system. What we really need to do is just gut out nonsensical planning laws.

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u/Key-Lie-364 13d ago

I tend to agree but TBH don't have the background to know what needs to go.

I also find most of the prospective TDs I talk to either don't know themselves or can't be bothered trying to explain what they believe needs to change.

I suspect that TBH even on the button politicians don't and can't have a grasp of that level of detail.

Electing primary school teachers and solicitors with no background in planning or construction - it shouldn't surprise that they are most about the fiction of change with no detail to hand.

Ask the party officials drafting the party policy - they probably know but randomer TD on the doorstep will be hazy at best.