Fine Gael News
Image via WikipediaFine Gael Leader, Enda Kenny TD, and Enterprise, Trade & Employment Spokesperson, Leo Varadkar TD, have called on Tanaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Mary Coughlan, and FAS to make a full and honest statement on the misuse of taxpayers’ money in FAS as revealed by the publication of some of the contents of the Internal Audit Report dated May 2006.
Disturbing when Singapore & US are more attractive locations than Ireland
The loss of 64 high-value jobs at Avocent shows that the cost of doing business in Ireland is now out of control, as these high-value jobs are moving to other traditionally high-cost countries, Fine Gael Enterprise Spokesman Leo Varadkar TD has said. …[more]
The Minister in charge of tackling Ireland’s rip-off retailers, Tánaiste Mary Coughlan, still hasn’t met with five of the country’s largest supermarket chains, one month after Taoiseach Brian Cowen made his now-famous remark to: ‘Bring in those people and get a handle on it…you know all those f***ers’.
Minister Coughlan was responding to Dáil questions on rip-off prices from Fine Gael Enterprise Spokesman Leo Varadkar TD.
“The Tánaiste has admitted under questioning that she has not had any face-to-face discussions with Dunnes, Superquinn, Lidl, Aldi or Spar about the retail rip-off scandal. Four weeks after the Taoiseach told her to hold face-to-face meetings industry representatives, the only supermarket official Minister Coughlan has met is from Tesco. …[more]
Govt turns blind eye to lengthening dole queues
The live register broke through the symbolic 200,000 barrier for the first time this decade in May as the spectre of widespread unemployment returns to haunt the country, Fine Gael Enterprise, Trade & Employment Spokesman Leo Varadkar TD has said.
“Unemployment is now so serious that Enterprise Minister Mary Coughlan must make a statement to the Dáil on this emerging crisis. The live register for May shows job losses are accelerating, with a 4% increase in the seasonally adjusted figure, and a massive 30% increase in the year. Job losses are now spread across the whole economy, not just the housing sector. There were 7,600 more people claiming benefits in May (seasonally adjusted), compared with an average monthly increase of 7,000 in the January to April period. …[more]
NO vote could mean losing our Commissioner next yearFine Gael Enterprise Spokesman Leo Varadkar TD has warned that a No vote in Thursday’s referendum could see Ireland losing its right to nominate a Commissioner as soon as next year. He made the remarks at a debate at the Permanent TSB branch in St Stephens Green moderated by the European Movement.
‘All over the country, Libertas posters tell us to Vote No to save our Commissioner. This is a very dishonest slogan. Voting No is likely way to lose Ireland its place on the Commission and to lose it in less than a year. …[more]
Image via WikipediaThe severe downturn in the services sector revealed by the BCB/PMI report published today (Wednesday) is further evidence of how Fianna Fáil’s paralysis on the economy is hitting home, according to Fine Gael Enterprise, Trade & Employment Spokesman Leo Varadkar TD.
“The NCB/PMI survey reveals the sharpest drop in service sector activity in the survey’s eight year history, with activity falling every month since February. This survey is just the latest evidence that the housing sector collapse is spilling over into the rest of the economy and is a damning indictment of Fianna Fáil’s, and Brian Cowen’s, economic record. …[more]
Fine Gael Enterprise Spokesman Leo Varadkar TD has asked the Chairman of the Oireachtas Enterprise & Small Business Committee to investigate the rising cost of food, groceries and other consumer goods.
Deputy Varadkar, who is a member of the Committee, has also asked its Chairman to highlight the growing discrepancy between sterling and euro prices in British-owned multiples. …[more]
Over the weekend, I made a submission to Fingal County Council on the proposed Kellystown Variation. The submission is set out in full below.
Background
The Kellystown variation proposal refers to 59.5 hectares of greenbelt zoned land between Carpenterstown and Clonsilla. It is proposed to rezone 32.2 hectares for open space, 24.4 hectares for residential development and 2.8 hectares for suburban centre (mixed use) development. …[more]
A ‘No’ vote in next week’s Referendum would signal a death knell for future Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland according to Fine Gael spokesperson on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar TD today (Tuesday).
“Ireland has received over fifty billion euro in structural funds and farm-based payments since we joined the EEC in 1973. However, we have benefited much more from the free and unrestricted access that came with the Single European Act and our membership of the Euro. This has allowed us to become the gateway to Europe for hundreds of multi-national companies. …[more]
