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i remember reading about this before the by-election. the idea that he'd have to run fucking clinics where bridie comes in moaning about the hole in the fence leading to the GAA ptich, and how the young lads do be drinking by the ramparts.
i hate them all.
irish times said:Opposition leader Enda Kenny is expected to propose a motion of no confidence in Brian Cowen as Taoiseach in the Dáil today.
Senior Fine Gael sources told The Irish Times the party leader was “outraged” by the banking reports.
Mr Kenny decided on the move late last night, after he had finished reading the reports which, he believes, provide compelling evidence that Mr Cowen had been “misleading the public” with regard to his role as minister for finance in the lead-up to the economic and banking crisis.
Yesterday the first official reports into the causes of the banking crisis concluded that home-made factors and not international financial volatility were to blame for the meltdown.
Hard-hitting reports by the new Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan and international banking experts Klaus Regling and Max Watson heavily criticised misguided government economic policies, a weak system of financial regulation and poor bank lending.
Taoiseach Brian Cowen accepted that policies introduced while he was minister for finance had led to a “deeply challenging” situation for the Irish people and he regretted that. He agreed that a more restrictive fiscal policy would have helped in slowing the economy.
“Hindsight is always clear and obviously we would not have taken such a course if we had known of the scale of the property collapse which was facing the country,” he said. “I deeply regret that.”
Major failures in banking regulation and the maintenance of the financial stability of the country – coupled with excessive and high-risk lending by the banks – led to the crisis, the reports concluded.
I mean it could be a labour led coalition next time round.
i think fine gael's main ethos is 'we're not fianna fail'. i couldn't tell you an awful lot about their policies.
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