Fine Gael

...Brian Lenihan said. He told the meeting that the current regulatory system had been "thrashed". Anglo Irish Bank director and former Fine Gael Finance Minister Alan Dukes said innovation in financial products should be limited, a call...

In this article: Martin Wolf, Recession, Alan Dukes, London School of Economics, Anglo Irish Bank, Bank of England, and Lehman Brothers

...the public sector pay bill. The coalition parties of Fianna Fail and the Green Party, along with the grown-up opposition parties of Fine Gael and the Labour Party, all agree an adjustment of EUR4bn is required. And yet ICTU prevails with...

In this article: Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Labour Party, Government Buildings, Balance sheet, and Revenue

...as lathair: Labour's Eamon Gilmore was attending a function at a school, while Enda was off with his economic roadshow. It fell to Fine Gael's Alan Shatter and Labour's Joan Burton to grill the Tanaiste. No sooner had Mary Coughlan...

In this article: Joan Burton, Alan Shatter, Fianna Fail, RTE, Paul Kehoe, and Timmy Dooley

...to protect the taxpayer. Sound and professional management of these assets (loans) to maximise their value will be important." Fine Gael finance spokesman Richard Bruton TD said the report raises huge questions over NAMA and contained...

In this article: Angel Gurria, Tax, Ireland, Asset, Unemployment, and Taoiseach

...decision to appoint the firm as advisers to the Department of Finance. "That is why we need an oversight committee," he said. Fine Gael finance spokesman Richard Bruton said it was important that a new Oireachtas oversight committee...

In this article: Merrill Lynch, Joan Burton, Labour Party, Department of Finance, Freedom of Information Act, and Richard Bruton

...be registered with the site. Proposed new laws designed to open up the bus market to private companies actually stifles competition, Fine Gael has claimed. The party said routes run by Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann were protected for up to...

In this article: Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann

...morning Enda was back in action unveiling his latest bright idea. He will lead an elite cadre of his troops -- a sort of flying column of Fine Gael's financial talking-heads -- on a pre-Budget tour of several cities to meet business shakers...

In this article: Enda Kenny, Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, God, Brian Hayes, Eamon Gilmore, Banana, and Cadre

...with the headline "bid for top EU job sinks". Meanwhile, the Irish Times reports that Taoiseach Brian Cowen is being urged by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny to drop his support for Mr Blair. He says Mr Cowen should "get off the...

In this article: Marlon King, Brian Cowen, Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains, Peter Wilson, Tony Blair, The Sun, Taoiseach, and The Irish News

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan has had his gender re-assigned by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny. Not content with twice killing off a former government minister in recent Dail contributions -- he erroneously referred to the "late" Padraig...

In this article: Enda Kenny and Padraig Faulkner

...registered with the site. The Government has been urged to put extra money and resources into suicide prevention during the recession. Fine Gael said more had to be done to respond to the psychological, psychiatric and emotional...

In this article: Suicide, Recession, Unemployment, and Dan Neville