Stephen Kearon PC

An expert group on mortgage arrears has recommended the introduction of a new Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process to help struggling home-owners. Download report here. Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan said the Government had accepted all of the recommendations of an interim report by the Mortgage Arrears and Personal Debt Expert Group. (more…)

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Can’t help but thinking how ironic it is, that Enda Kenny’s political career was saved by the very people who’s career he wanted to end, i.e. the Senators! What will Enda think of next?   Perhaps reduce the Cabinet to 10 members in light of the number of his frontbenchers who expressed support in his leadership.

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The changes proposed in the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010 are long overdue.  As Minister O’Cuiv highlighted last month in Galway, one of the big things that genuinely unemployed people complain about is forced inactivity. The Minister promised he would tackle this problem quickly, having for many years argued that enforced idleness was not […]

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Regretablly there has been much misinformation regarding the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010, needlessly causing concern to people. The factual position is as follows: For new customers applying for the One-Parent Family payment from April 2011, it is proposed that the payment will be made to them until the youngest child reaches age 13 […]

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Irish Times published my letter today: Madam, – Watching the so-called “storming” of the Dáil (Home News, May 13th) and then listening to the pathetic apologists on radio the next day was utterly sickening. Pseudo-socialists like Richard Boyd Barrett are merely damaging the international reputation of this country and its ability to borrow the €400 […]

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Enda Kenny again proved how incapable he is to run the country by stating, in the Dáil yesterday, that Irish banks held €7 billion in Greek bonds, a figure that would have had huge implications for their tier one capital requirements as well as for the cost of Irish borrowing, when the actual figure was […]

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Pat Cahill is conveniently ignoring his own union’s past.  In 2001 the ASTI rejected the labour court’s recommendations and instead decided to strike in support of their demand for a massive 30% pay rise. Such action directly contributed to the economic situation this country now finds itself in.  This fact needs to be taken on […]

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Eamon Gilmore stated on The Panel (5th November 2009) that he would stop paying welfare recipients, his exact words being “there is a requirement to get any dole payment that you have to be available for work or available for education or whatever, and if someone doesn’t comply with that you don’t pay them”. Gilmore’s […]

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The Wicklow People have today published my letter regarding St. Patrick’s Days travel: Dear Editor It was with surprise that I read the comments from your contributors regarding our elected representatives travelling abroad for St Patrick’s Day. Such utter nonsense from a bunch of illformed, shortsighted people! To quote An Taoiseach on the importantance of […]

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A very important book launch takes place this Tuesday, March 16th at 18.30 in the Burlington Hotel, with special guest, Mary Davis, Chairperson Office of Active Citizenship & Managing Director Special Olympics Europe & Eurasia Wicklow for Europe has the honour of having a chapter dedicated to the story of the tremendous work of the dedicated volunteers who […]

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