Ivor Callely should go, and go now
02/08/2010
RTE Drivetime – Discussing Ivor Callely with Philip Boucher Hayes
Struggling home owners to get arrears help
06/07/2010
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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Enda Kenny's Survival
22/06/2010
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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Opposition Comments on Social Welfare Bill Two Faced
31/05/2010
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 […]
Proposed Changes to Lone Parent Allowance
31/05/2010
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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Bias in "The Big Opinion"
18/05/2010
Letter to Wicklow People regarding their new “The Big Opinion” section: I welcome your new “The Big Opinion” section, however was disappointed to see that your usual high standards of objective reporting were absent, in that the vast majority of it was anti Government, populist nonsense! (more…)
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Protest at the Dáil
14/05/2010
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 – Dangerous and Unsuitable for Office
29/04/2010
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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