Oisín Coughlan
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278, I think.
Okay, so a good sample size.
So what about the political affiliation of those who were polled in relation to the answers that they gave?
Yeah, it's interesting.
I mean, to some degree, there's a...
It's not surprising, as in anti-government parties more to the left.
So Social Democrats, Labour, the Greens are all, you know, in the 80s and 90s saying that the government isn't doing enough.
But Sinn Féin, which, you know, sometimes we see sitting on the fence in these questions, 62% of their voters say the government isn't doing enough fast enough.
But there is 29% saying we're doing too much too fast.
So in that more cautious, how will this affect me camp.
But I think the most interesting results are the government parties.
So 51% of Fine Gael voters, so an absolute majority saying the government isn't doing enough.
Now there's a big chunk in the middle then of Fine Gael voters who say they're doing as much as they can.
Because they're not, you know, people, if you vote for Fine Gael, you don't want to be anti the party.
And in Fianna Fáil, it's almost evenly split.
44% saying aren't doing enough.
46% saying they're doing as much as they can.
And then, maybe not surprisingly, it's AIM2 is, there's a slight majority of AIM2 voters saying we're doing too much.
And then an absolute majority of independent Ireland voters saying that we're doing too much.
So that's,