Talk:Luke 'Ming' Flanagan

Comment
All the links work for me Tzq99 (talk) 14:36, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Really?
Good for you, doesn't work for me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.83.249.57 (talk) 21:37, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Suspicious edits
Looking at the edit history I am seeing a lot of edits from a "Lukeming" removing negative information about the person this page is about. Coincidentally, the latest edits coincide with the TD announcing their wish to run for the EU elections followed by a fraudulent attempt to have the page protected. Selfpublishing (talk) 00:33, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Seems an anonymous user has made a few edits adding the content that "Lukeming" removed. Selfpublishing (talk) 00:45, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
 * It is suspicious, probably a flunkie of Flanagan's. Snappy (talk) 11:26, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Suggestions
I would like to make the following suggestions to edit/add to this page, because it is relevant to the Deputy's Dáil career. Regardless of the content, ect., this needs to be updated because a lot has taken place between 2011 and when the Deputy decided to run for the upcoming elections. Suggested edits, as suggested by an admin to do so on this page. To get this approved and not removed again completely, I would like suggestions/edits to what would accommodate a neutral view for this page. All the links check out and I believe they are relevant and decent references. Open to suggestions:

===Dáil career===

2011
When he was elected in 2011, the Roscommon-South Leitrim TD kept his promise to give back to his community. His generous promise was to only keep half of his €92,672 salary and distribute the rest to local projects. He said that he saw it going to a better place instead of the money being be pumped back into the banks. He saw it as a statement of devotion to his local constituency, blazing the trail by taking a different take on how TD's can give back to their communities.

In March 2011, Flanagan announced that he was quitting smoking cannabis in Ireland in order to protect his family and focus on the issues for which he stands. A Fianna Fáil councillor from Kilkenny had lodged a formal complaint to the Garda Síochána about Flanagan's cannabis use. Flanagan said that: "...my wife and children are the most important people on the planet to me and I don't want my kids to witness the Garda calling to the house." He will continue to campaign for the legalisation of cannabis, while keeping is slate clean.

In July 2011, Flanagan said he had no reason to apologise for an incident in which a Dáil microphone picked up a conversation he had with fellow Independent TDs Shane Ross and Mick Wallace disparaging the appearance of Fine Gael TD Mary Mitchell O'Connor. Wallace initiated the conversation by saying "Miss Piggy has toned it down a bit today". Flanagan was heard saying "they’d want to ban her wearing pink" and Ross commented that "she normally wears the most garish colours".

On 2 November 2011, Flanagan walked out of the Dáil amid a heated disagreement with Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney over turf-cutting rights. Flanagan had observed that his Fine Gael constituency colleague Frank Feighan had promised before the 2011 general election that he would “sign his name in blood” if that was required to oppose a turf-cutting ban, with Coveney responding by saying populism was a dangerous thing. Flanagan then said, “Populism and bondholders. I am leaving the chamber”, with Coveney telling him to “go on and walk out in protest”. Flanagan retorted, “My daddy did not give me a seat.” This referred to the fact that Simon Coveney was elected in a by-election after his father, Hugh Coveney TD died March 1998.

On 15 December 2011, he helped launch a nationwide campaign against a proposed household charge being brought in as part of the 2012 Irish budget.

2012
In April 2012, Flanagan stated he would be urging people to vote 'No' in the referendum on ratification of the European Fiscal Compact Treaty on the grounds that Ireland would lose power to bigger countries in Europe. He also stated that Ireland should leave the economic and monetary union (EMU), based on the euro currency.

2013
In June 2013, Flanagan came to prominence as an advocate of turf cutters whose ability to cut turf was affected by the European Union's Habitats Directive. As part of his advocacy, Flanagan attended a number of turf cutters' protests in support, as well as being present at turf harvesting in designated conservation areas in spite of the ban.

November 2013 Flanagan launched the Cannabis Regulation Bill but the private members' motion put forward by the Independent TD Luke "Ming" Flanagan on the regulation of cannabis was defeated 111-8 in the Dáil in early November.

2014
Currently, Flanagan has been pushing for more consistent attendance by members of the Dáil as it as been a rising problem. He has been speaking about current issues such as the flooding that took place on the West coast of Ireland during this past Winter season. Flanagan has also made the deteriorating conditions of psychiatric clinics a priority. Flanagan has also been pinpointing the fraud in Coillte.

He currently sits on the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture, and the Gaeltacht and the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Most recently Flanagan, as the spokesman for the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association, headed the Private Member's Motion on the Government supporting turf cutters. But subsequently, the Government has renegaded on bringing this to Europe.

Lukeming (talk) 17:21, 27 March 2014


 * The first paragraph says "kept his promise to give back to his community. His generous promise was to". Many of the sources are YouTube videos and are primary sources. I think you would need to cut it down to about one-third the length, relying on newspaper articles and re-writing it in a neutral tone if you wanted to take a second try at it. CorporateM (Talk) 04:22, 16 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Is the media coverage of his abysmal voting record significant? http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/two-irish-meps-have-worst-voting-record-in-parliament-1.2037668 Alrewas (talk) 21:54, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

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