The Green Party has always espoused openness and transparency, and Green politics are based on debate and discussion.
With that in mind, I have ten questions for the Green Party. Let's see if any of the readers of my humble blog have any answers ...
1. Why are the Green Party denying the the peoples of Donegal, Waterford and Dublin South their right to a by-election? It has been many months since these people have been without their allowed level of representation ... why do the Green Party keep voting against holding these 3 by-elections? Why are the Green Party delaying on the referendum on children's rights? Why has John Gormley refused to meet Fregus Finlay to discuss the proposed referendum?
2. Where is the ban on corporate donations promised by John Gormley?
3. Why have the Green Party appointed unqualified Green Party members to State jobs after promising that all such appointments would be openly advertised and transparent. Elizabeth Davidson was appointed to the board of IFCO (Irish Film Classification) ... was this position openly advertised, and is Elizabeth Davidson qualified for this job in any way? Elizabeth is just one example of this ... there are many others. How is this different to the gombeenism of FF on "Planet Bertie".
4. Shannon - Has there been even ONE inspection of US military flights passing through Sahnnon? Who knows what is coming through Shannon?
5. Tara - The argument was made by John Gormley and co. that it would cost €200m to buy us out of the contract with Eurolink, and that if we spent that money, it would be €200m less for our public service? How come we can now hand over multiples in billions to zombie banks and its ok?
6. The Banking Inquiry - Why does the inquiry not include the night of the guarantee in Sept 2008? Why is the inquiry not open and transparent? (Private not secret, right Minister Gormley???).
7. Secret Ministerial rotation deals - Why was a secret deal put in place to rotate Green Ministers after 2.5 years in Govt? Why was Eamon Ryan excluded from this secret deal, and why did he not know about the deal (he has claimed ignorance many times).
8. If secret deals like the above exist, how can we be sure that other secret deals don't exist? Were secret deals done on Tara and Shannon? Why did Eamon Ryan not know about these secret deals between John Gormley and Bertie Ahern? What else don't we know? How can the Green Party still claim to be open and transparent whilst doing deals that GP members and GP Ministers don't even know about?
9. Why has the Irish EPI index dropped 10 places since Minister Gormley has been in charge. We were 10 places higher when we had Dick Roche in Minister Gormley's seat!
10. Where are the Electoral, Tax and Dail reforms? Where's the GMO Legislation? Where is the ratification of Aahrus? Where's the National Transport Strategy?
Vienna
5 hours ago
How do the government want to achieve their target of 75% household waste recycled until 2013 when there is NO national plan or strategy for recycling at all and there is NO existing recycling industry in the country? Massively faking the statistics? ....
ReplyDeleteWhere is the support for the Shell To Sea campaign (=> http://www.shelltosea.com) gone? The "Rossport Five" once got standing ovations from the "Green Party" members and their whole leadership on one of their conventions. ...
Why did Eamon Ryan stop (after obviously again briefed by multinational oil companies) a nationwide canola programme which he first introduced based on a European Greens' concept? Instead of being produced decentralised by local farmers, rapeseed oil is now coming from countries where rainforest is cut down to plant the canola.=> http://donegalgreens.com/?p=39 ....
I would have more questions if required. The "Green Party" leadership just ignore them and do NOT answer a single one of them.
The Donegal Greens (http://donegalgreens.com) took their consequence and disassociated themselves from the "Green Party" on 1 November 2009 with a 94% majority of their voting members. John Gormley who never had shown any support for the Donegal Greens massively posted to our members that this vote would have been invalid. Colm Ó Caomhánaigh prompted us to shut down our website. Since my open letter to John Gormley (http://donegalgreens.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Open-letter-to-John-Gormley-10-Dec-2009.pdf) we haven't heard from them anymore.
John Gormley and Eamon Ryan have been constantly ignoring my letters sent to them.
The members and leadership of the "Green Party" ignore any question posed to them in their private discussion forum on Politics.ie.
Their former openness has lost against cronyism.
In my view the leadership AND the membership of the "Green Party" have betrayed their own constitution!
Thank you for this thread here.
Charlie Williams.
How do the government want to achieve their target of 75% household waste recycled until 2013 when there is NO national plan or strategy for recycling at all and there is NO existing recycling industry in the country? Massively faking the statistics? ....
ReplyDeleteWhere is the support for the Shell To Sea campaign (=> http://www.shelltosea.com) gone? The "Rossport Five" once got standing ovations from the "Green Party" members and their whole leadership on one of their conventions. ...
Why did Eamon Ryan stop (after obviously again briefed by multinational oil companies) a nationwide canola programme which he first introduced based on a European Greens' concept? Instead of being produced decentralised by local farmers, rapeseed oil is now coming from countries where rainforest is cut down to plant the canola.=> http://donegalgreens.com/?p=39 ....
I would have more questions if required. The "Green Party" leadership just ignore them and do NOT answer a single one of them.
The Donegal Greens (http://donegalgreens.com) took their consequence and disassociated themselves from the "Green Party" on 1 November 2009 with a 94% majority of their voting members. John Gormley who never had shown any support for the Donegal Greens massively posted to our members that this vote would have been invalid. Colm Ó Caomhánaigh prompted us to shut down our website. Since my open letter to John Gormley (http://donegalgreens.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Open-letter-to-John-Gormley-10-Dec-2009.pdf) we haven't heard from them anymore.
John Gormley and Eamon Ryan have been constantly ignoring my letters sent to them.
The members and leadership of the "Green Party" ignore any question posed to them in their private discussion forum on Politics.ie.
Their former openness has lost against cronyism.
In my view the leadership AND the membership of the "Green Party" have betrayed their own constitution!
Thank you for this thread here.
Charlie Williams.