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MINISTER BRENDAN HOWLIN has criticised remarks made in the Seanad yesterday regarding a Fine Gael TD.
Responding to a question on Senator Davis Norris’ comment that TD Regina Doherty was “talking out of her fanny” on abolition of the Seanad, The Reform Minister said that he expects a “robust debate” on the topic, but not one containing personal remarks.
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Deputy Doherty said that she was “upset by the personal nature of the remarks” and is lodging a formal complaint to the leader of the House.
The debate on Seanad abolition continues today.
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Has the Spanish PM said Spain will not require a bailout and they are not in talks with the ECB/EU/IMF yet?
Catalonia’s problem is that taxes collected there are administered by the Spanish governament. The result of that is that Catalonia is bailing Spain out with 22bn each year, that’s the money collected in Catalonia that goes to Madrid and never comes back. Apart from all the motorway tolls whose benefits are used to build toll free motorways in Spain, the airports in the midle of nowhere (Ciudad Real) and high-speed trains stopping in rural areas. As an independent country Catalonia would be the 4th wealthier in the Eurozone.
Bankia is the best example of how things are done in Madrid: minimal effort, speculation, business with family and friends, long established elites that arose during Franco’s dictatorship. “Pelotazo” is the Spanish word for all that.
To put it in sport terms look at the different values of FC Barcelona and Real Madrid or Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
“This lunchtime Rajoy said the rescue of Bankia would not affect the Spanish government deficit, and called for the new European Stability Mechanism to lend directly to banks – echoing a similar call previously made by Enda Kenny.”
Funny, our bailout of the banks got turned into sovereign debt, but Kenny wants to support Spain in keeping their banking debt off the Spanish sovereign debt metric.
Believe it or not, i support Kennys move here, because if Spain are allowed to do this, then Ireland must be allowed to remove the 64 billion private bank debt from its books as well.
Watch the spaniards sleep walk their way into the same morass that we’re in, with their greedy lying banks cheering them every step of the way!!
Lets just hope they don’t have to make their bank debt sovereign, because as always we will have to piggy back other countries negotiating skills, such as the Greek interest rate cut that fg/labour shamelessly try to take credit for. Fingers crossed.
and just yesterday the justice minister said that there is no need to hold an official enquiery into the bad management at the bank and the fault lies with the previous goverment so if the other crowd is at fault why not open one up is it that the savings bank like caja madrid what was controlled by their political party and their buddys who ran it and now have salarys for life that cant be touched mmm there just short of saying the socialists ate my homework
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