Next election that hopefully will come soon, may l suggest you are wrong Declan and Killian. Hopefully it will come very soon before those who said not a penny more or Labours way or Frankfurts way do not pay more money over to unsecured bond holders 18 billion this year so far what a record….

Yes. That would be fantastic Kerry. Maybe the evil axis of Fine Gael & Labour could be replaced by a winning combination of Fianna Fáil, the architects of our economic catastrophe and Sinn Fein, whose only experience of dealing with banks involves balaclavas and a teller handing cash over the counter. We’d be soooooo lucky.

Yeah Killian FG/Lab don’t even bother with the balaclava and they are so stupid to hand over 18 billion euro to the banks! Also should you not check out FG, SF and Labour’s calls for more money to be spent while they were in opposition? 18 months in and all we have Stroke Reilly to look at.

Yes Kerry. Being determined to stay in the Eurozone is really stupid. We don’t need foreign direct investment here. We can thatch our rooves and sit around the fireplace drinking Poitin and reading Peig Sayers. Refusing to pay = exit from Eurozone = economic abyss.

Better in what way?

#rommel See below.

Iceland’s in the EU, is it Kerry? We’d be an economic wasteland for decades if we walked away from our debts. And by the way- it’s our debt. We owe it. We went nuts for ten years- with the big houses, cars and holidays. And we’ve no one else to blame but ourselves. Let me guess- you didn’t. Tired of that line too.

Eh Killian did you ever hear of NAMA? Nothing to do with big cars and holidays. Maybe you need to do a bit more research before following the party line? If your at fault take your medicine I see no reason why I should cover your excesses.

Also seeing your so certain we would be a economic waste land for decades can you point our one county that after defaulting spent ‘decades’ ??

How’s Greece doing, Kerry? You reckon FDI will be queuing up to do business in Athens any time soon?

And NAMA’s there, Kerry because people exactly because of holidays, cars and greed. People buying houses they couldn’t afford, very often buying two or three houses and bloating the market. Not to mention people taking 100% mortgages, sometimes 110% mortgages. Any if that ring a bell with you? Or do you need to do some more research?

Don’t just tap the thumbs down icon. That requires finger dexterity. Chimps have that. If I’ve told a mistruth, contradict me.

Paddy bit tired of those deriding people saying that our Finance Minister is yet again talking rubbish. Seismic shift, I’d be laughing out loud if it was not killing our country

Please replace with balderdash if easily offended

By the way Killian my comment was about our esteemed finance minister, just realise it looks like a comment about yourself which it was not

Grow up, Kerry? You’re the one who’s like a petulant child rolling around on the floor of the supermarket aisle, stamping your feet screaming ” I don’t want to pay! I don’t want to pay! I don’t want to pay!!!!!! Ireland is a modern sophisticated country playing in the big league, Kerry. And it will survive this and prosper. But serious times call for serious people. All clowns off the stage.

Don’t you love it when people underscore their weak position by resorting to name-calling?

@Killian
So, since you’re so clever, tell me where the money is? How much of the 67 billion euro went to repay bad debt? Half, you say? No. Try €600’000 of the 3 billion allocated and given to banks. That’s about a couple cents from every single taxpayer. The other 64 billion has gone straight to bondholders in Europe.

Yes, maybe there were excesses during the CT years. Can’t deny it. You seem in full denial that it’s still going on though, how about you tell me how much money the taxpayer spends on expenses like hair cuts and ladies underwear? If you said 500 million euro, you’d be wrong. It’s over a billion euro – in expenses that are untaxed, unvouched, and include the mere act of showing up to do their job.

What you fail to understand, is that this country is in trouble. We’re in trouble NOT because people are out of control, or because we are poor debt repayers, but because Enda Kenny and his ilk insist on milking the working man – the worker, the one who is the economy – and instead passes massive tax breaks to his wealthy pals, while increasing his own income. Why yes, he recently gave himself a top up of €10’000 – on top of his existing salary which was more than 20% higher than his peers in much larger countries, countries which don’t have billion euro expenses and lavish jets.

You like to laugh and poke at the people who are actually infected by this pathetic excuse of a government, but tell me this: who is responsible for the budget that is sucking the economy to the point of collapse? Who wrote that budget?