Archive for the category: ‘Better Management of our Economy’
Sorry seems to be the hardest word for the Central Bank (and for everyone else!)
4th February, 2010
The scandal regarding the waste of public money in the Central Bank should have been seen as an opportunity, not a PR problem. The......
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Maintenance cost of Dept. websites ranges from €60 to €523,000
31st January, 2010
Taxpayers’ value for money questioned when up-keep of one site costs 8,300 times more than another Figures released to Fine Gael Senator Paschal Donohoe......
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Government Incompetence Hits 58,000 Public Service Workers in Dublin
29th January, 2010
Figures released to Fine Gael Dublin Central Senator, Paschal Donohoe by the Department of Finance show that there are more than 47,000 public sector......
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Thoughts on ‘Picking Up The Pieces’ by Jim Power
27th January, 2010
The debate about the future of our economy is dominated by numbers. Economists measure how much our income has shrunk, the number of jobs......
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Jobs Crisis as 20,000 under 25’s unemployed in Dublin – Donohoe
13th January, 2010
Regional Live Register figures from the CSO show a crisis with youth unemployment, particularly in the Dublin region, according to Fine Gael Senator Paschal......
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What Fine Gael would do with the national finances
6th January, 2010
The Fine Gael ’Jobs Budget’ would take 50,000 people off the Live Register in 2010 and more than 175,000 by 2013. The Fine Gael......
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Yesterday’s Figures
6th January, 2010
Yesterday saw the publication of new figures by the Department of Finance on the state of the national finances. A flurry of figures were......
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When is a wage cut not a wage cut?
4th January, 2010
Over the Christmas break I researched and raised issues regarding the cost of government and all of it’s different elements. Parliamentary questions allowed me......
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A Public Inquiry
16th December, 2009
This morning, on the Order of Business, I supported the request from the new Governor of the Irish Central Bank for a public inquiry......
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Budget ’09
10th December, 2009
This is the main theme of today in the Seanad. Think that the media reaction has been reasonably muted. But this is only because......
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