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Can we trust fianna fail with current figures?

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    #32
    dresden8
    Registered Users Posts: 3,290 ✭✭✭dresden8


    yoshytoshy wrote: »
    I'm not fully aware of how things like this are actually carried out in the dail.

    Do the opposition have the same reports on figures that the government has ,before the budget ?

    I.E. Can the opposition work on a budget themselves ,so they can compare how they would have done it ?

    Generally, no.

    That's why when the Minister for Finance starts to read his speech the opposition are frantically leafing through the copy they received 10 seconds earlier to find something to give out about in their rebuttal speeches.

    This year the opposition got the "we're all in this together, so you have to take half the blame" briefing so, in this case, I don't know.


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    #33
    yoshytoshy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭yoshytoshy


    dresden8 wrote: »
    Generally, no.

    That's why when the Minister for Finance starts to read his speech the opposition are frantically leafing through the copy they received 10 seconds earlier to find something to give out about in their rebuttal speeches.

    This year the opposition got the "we're all in this together, so you have to take half the blame" briefing so, in this case, I don't know.

    It's a pitty ,it would show us a great deal about all parties.


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    #34
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    dresden8 wrote: »
    The live register is up something like 70 or 80% for the year. They're up to their t1ts.

    So whats stopping a transfer of people from other departments that don't have enough to do and getting them trained to take on the roles.

    HSE is full of administrators and some of them don't need to be there.

    Time to make efficient use of existing government resources if possible.


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    #35
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Backlog of 70,000 unemployment claims, that is bad :eek: http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0312/welfare.html


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    #36
    Daithinski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 279 ✭✭Daithinski


    Offy wrote: »
    I think we can, they seemed to have learnt their lesson after Haughty and Bertie. With punishments like they received I think all politicians will think long and hard before breaking the law again. After all look at the consequences they have suffered for all the brown envelopes and dirty dealings. So OP I think you can rest assured they have our best interests at heart.

    I hope this is sarcasm, but I fear it isn't.

    Our best interests at heart? Theres a first time for everything I suppose...


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    #37
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Daithinski wrote: »
    I hope this is sarcasm, but I fear it isn't.

    Our best interests at heart? Theres a first time for everything I suppose...

    lol that was either sarcasm or WOW! :eek:

    I'd assume sarcasm, nobody could think that :D


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    #38
    gearoidc
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭gearoidc


    think we can, they seemed to have learnt their lesson after Haughty and Bertie. With punishments like they received I think all politicians will think long and hard before breaking the law again.

    "Punishments"???:confused:

    Exactly what "punishment" has our future Uachtarán received?


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    #39
    gearoidc
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭gearoidc


    OOops.
    Sorry. i missed the irony


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