Government, where are you?
SIR,
Where are we now ? Are we there yet ? Can we adapt to the ‘new normal’ ? These are questions we can hardly answer fully. However we are in a better place, surely?
I can beautify my garden with fresh flowers and plants from garden centres as of today, Monday. I can get the materials to do some DIY in my home. I was cocooning up to two weeks ago so, yes, things are improving.
We are not the first generation to be faced with extreme life choices. The human race has had war and pestilence many times before; difficult times in which to exist. The bottom line is always to make the best of it, struggle on and hope for better times again.
Some, like our doctors and nurses, have stood up and rallied to the cause. Our caretaker government has put in a huge effort; while not getting everything right, they seem to have assessed things appropriately and acted accordingly.
They are rightly urging us to stay the course in fighting Coronavirus. The enemy is still at the gates; the war is far from over.
The economic situation will need to be handled properly now. The ECB, our good friend, is providing a trillion or so to help countries get out of the impending recession.
Austerity won’t be accepted so soon again by the ‘Pigs’.
We need to show the same care for our people that we have shown in the past three months when the financial fallout happens.
Hopefully the praise heaped on our nurses wasn’t spoken with a ‘forked tongue’ by our politicians and they will be treated fairly and respected when their salaries are being discussed in the future; ‘eaten bread’ and all that.
Our political class in general haven’t covered themselves in glory since the General Election. They are still talking and talking and talking but no new government. What a joke in these times of Brexit and the worst pandemic we have known. One week should have been enough, after all Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have been working together already for the last four years. What’s the problem ladies and gentlemen? It’s no wonder they are generally not held in very high regard by the public, little wonder!
Care and attention to detail is required by all of us in the next few months. The unwelcome visitor appears to be unwilling to leave. We have to live with the new situation, Sincerely,
Gerry Cournane, Tralee.
SIR,
One hundred days without an elected government? What is going on? Surely if a government is not formed after a given time, we should go back and try again and again if necessary. This farce should not be allowed to continue.
To think that members of this caretaker government are still in their pre-election positions in spite of losing their seats is beyond comprehension. For how much longer will this be allowed to go on – 200 days, 500 days, 1,000 days? Will they be allowed to stay there forever? Could it be that we have seen the end of General Elections and the only other elections we will have will be to replace the seat of someone who dies.
Oh I know what you might be saying:
1. This could not happen. 2. This would not be allowed to happen.
3. This is not possible. Well just think, 100 days ago did you think what we have now could happen, and if the answer is no then why could the rest not happen? After all, tomorrow will be 101 days and counting, Sincerely,
Michael O’Meara, Faha, Killarney.