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THE CABINET WILL not be recalled from their summer holidays as concerns grow over the Eurozone debt crisis.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Minister for Finance Michael Noonan and their colleagues are currently on summer recess. However, the Taoiseach’s spokesman told the Irish Times that senior officials and politicians are in “constant contact” with their counterparts in Europe and are closely monitoring developments.
A government source also told the paper that there would be little ministers could do from Dublin, as the problems are international. “As far as the Eurozone goes, Paris, Frankfurt and Brussels is where it is going to happen,” the source said.
Philip Aldrick, economics editor of the Daily Telegraph, warned this morning that the ECB’s “brinkmanship” in responding to rising bond yields in Spain and Italy risks creating a “two-tier” Eurozone, with stronger economies such as Germany and the Netherlands breaking away to form a “new euro”.
Enda Kenny is taking his holidays in “the mountains of Co Kerry” with his family this year, he told the Dáil two weeks ago. The Irish Times has previously reported that he will likely be joined there by transport minister Leo Varadkar, communications minister Pat Rabbitte, and arts minister Jimmy Deenihan. Environment minister Phil Hogan and Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton also told the paper they will be in the west of Ireland. Jobs minister Richard Bruton did not reveal his destination, but said he will be reading a book of Leonard Cohen’s poetry.
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So much for reform of government and in sitting Dáil days? Promises promises Enda…
Ps I know politicians should get holidays but two months during a financial crisis is a joke. Where’s all our promised legislation on upward only rent reviews, changes in bankruptcy laws etc? You take a break when you earn in, not because you are entitled to it Enda
Plus ça change
The most disturbing thing about that piece is the fact that Leonard Cohen writes poetry.
It’s also weird that a journalist thinks that a Euro crisis is something our lot would be involved with. Oh, I need a holiday!
Could that mentioned concept of a “new euro” actually come to pass? This is an actual question, I mean if there’s a chance there’ll be a euro for the more stable countries and one for the PIGS of Europe then what is the point in us staying with the euro rather than reinstating our old currency…? I thought a strength of the euro was that it was tied to the value of the mark, but if that value is taken away from the currency we would use, where’s the incentive to stay?
Anyone else remember the furore from Fine Gael and Labour in 2009 when the Dáil wasn’t recalled?
I vaguely remember Enda & Gilmore having a bit of a wobbly when the Dáil wasn’t recalled at the start of the Crisis a while back… No?
Cheap headline…
Life goes on for everybody in the dail.maybe because they earn more money in a year then most people earn in a lifetime.
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