What kind of government do they have in Ireland?

Question

Type of government

Answer 1

The Republic is a bicameral participatory constitutional democracy.

The head of state is the President elected every 7 years by popular ballot, where an election takes place. In order to run, a candidate needs to be nominated by sufficient local councillors, members of the upper or lower houses of paliament - Dail & Seanad. At the last election the sitting president was the only candidate to get sufficient nominatins so there was no vote (majorly undemocratic in my eyes as a voter denied his vote!!) The President has largely ceremonial powers although he or she (last few presidents have been women and it is seen as an advantage at present to be a women if seeking this office) may refer a bill passed by the Oireactas (parliament) to the supreme court to pass judgement on constitutional points before signing it into law. If passed by the court that point can not be retried in the future which is useful for constitutionally controversial laws. The power is rarely exercised.

The Head of Government is the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) elected by the Dail (lower house of the Oireactas) who wields the real power and heads the cabinet which is the collective group of ministers.

The Oireactas consists of two houses - lower house is the Dail which is the legislating chamber while the upper house is the Senate (Seanad) which is a revising chamber.
The Dail is elected by the people using a system of multi-seat constituencies (41 constituencies each returning between 3 and 5 deputies depending on population for a total of 166 deputies, allowing 1 to act as chairman this leaves a government requiring 83 deputies for a majority). Proportional represention on the single transferable vote model is used to elect deputies and election must take place every 5 years although the Taoiseach may seek to go to the country earlier if he/she so chooses, this involves asking the president to dissolve the Dail which is usually agreed to.
The Senate is elected on a panel system with most seats going to those elected by local councillors - this leads to it being a place where members of the Dail who have lost their seats in an election often end up parked until the next election. A chunk of seats is reserved for the taoiseach to appoint which usually ensures a comfortable majority for the government and there are a small number of seats directly elected by the graduates of the older universities.

The governments are usually coalitions of 2 or 3 parties. the current coalition igovernment is between Fianna Fail a broad based populist party and the Progressive Democrats a smaller free market party.

The government of Northern Ireland is conducted via direct rule from London at the moment though it is (just about) possible that the local Northern parties will arrive at an agreement for resurrecting devolved government in the next few weeks. When the Northern Assembly operates it runs on a system of cross community government that means the largest unionist party and the largest nationalist party share the leadership and ministries are divided out amongst all parties, effectively putting every major sectarian party in permanent government. There is limited scope for non-sectarian parties to operate but this is seen as progress in the eyes of Northerners (I'm not from there so don't ask me to explain the thinking!)

Answer 2

Ireland is divided into two nations, Ireland and Northern Ireland. Ireland is a democratic government while Northern Ireland is under United Kingdom which has a constitutional monarchy type of government.

Answer 3

the variety of government is a Democratic tri Cameral Republic elected on nicely-known suffrage. the variety of government is a corrupt self serving gravy boat of pirates. The contributors are the main overpaid scroungers in Europe and previous. there's a coterie of "on-the-take" junior ministers. Semi state bodies are the honey pot for the "indigent" camp followers. on no account: on no account on no account has a disgraced member been rusticated .. "particular it quite is basically the custom" me asze. must you ever hear "financial regulator" think of of BISTO gravy variety. "mushy touchdown" is yet yet another article of deceit. the government "stamp-dutied" the vulnerable relatives forming hopefuls into borrowings from crony bankers to bloat the exchequer take .government did "PROXY BORROWING for the time of the needy hopes of novices AND gave tax breaks money flush Medics and Lawers WHO sublet .. Now the project of the Ballybrit tent ...builders. builders, Bribery and "money on horses" those poooles are a shame to the wonderful ineffective who based our State. long formerly the brown envelopes ..... Lisbon " No "

Answer 4

Ireland is a republic.

Answer 5

We have BBbBbbBBertie!!

Up the Republic!!

Answer 6

see questioneers answer and give him 10 points!!!

Answer 7

none,england is the boss

Answer 8

drunken irish