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Just like ‘Dallas’ shower scene, ministers think it’s a bad dream

Just like ‘Dallas’ shower scene, ...

posted on: 18/01/2013

LAST Tuesday the Taoiseach deftly slipped into his office before disability campaigners gathered outside Government Build-ings to protest against his Government and his Health Minister’s health cuts. While he arrived in time to avoid the...

Kenny finds the facts get in the way of fiction

Kenny finds the facts get in the way of ficti...

posted on: 18/01/2013

Though he is said to have uttered it during a radio debate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s great phrase — “You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts” — could have been coined...

Chris exposed as a bit of a ‘sockmuppet’

Chris exposed as a bit of a ‘sockmuppet...

posted on: 18/01/2013

Last week, the Sunday Independent broke the story that a former parliamentary colleague of mine, Chris Andrews, was the person behind several hundred anonymous tweets attacking Fianna Fail. To say I was taken aback by this news is an understatement,...

The Bank Bonuses Bill

The Bank Bonuses Bill

posted on: 18/01/2013

Last Wednesday I published a short and long overdue piece of legislation: The Bank Bonuses Bill. If the government accepts this Bill in September then we can at last do something to tackle the continuing scandal of bank bosses awarding themselves...

Burton must come clean on surge in Disability Allowance rejections

Burton must come clean on surge in Disability...

posted on: 01/08/2012

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Social Protection Willie O’Dea TD has written to the Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton requesting a detailed explanation for the surge in rejected applications for the Disability Allowance. Deputy O’Dea said...

FF launches Bill to crack down on bank boss bonuses

FF launches Bill to crack down on bank boss b...

posted on: 26/07/2012

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Social Protection Willie O’Dea has published legislation to crack down on big bonuses for senior bank staff over the next five years.   The Bankers Bonuses Bill (Credit Institutions Stabilisation Amendment Bill 2012...

Proposed taxing of Child Benefit for those earning over €100,000 just gesture politics

Proposed taxing of Child Benefit for those ea...

posted on: 26/07/2012

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Social Protection, Willie O’Dea TD, says that the suggestion by Minister Joan Burton that people earning over €100,000 should pay tax on any child benefit they receive is just “gesture politics of the worst...

Don’t believe the spin — our politicians flounder in a sea of hype

Don’t believe the spin — our poli...

posted on: 26/07/2012

AS we have seen time and again since it came into office, this government is absolutely obsessed with communications. Its capacity for announcements, reannouncements and repackaged repeat reannouncements has been something to behold. But they would...

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