The government could dump it if they wanted – both the banking guarantee scheme and the bank bailouts were completely unconstitutional – anyone out there want to take a case to the Supreme Court?

Very good point Tony. Don Noonan will claim a victory when not a red cent (remember that ?) should’ve been paid to those criminal incompetents in the first place.

Haha you,ve sum hope, no hope and bob hope of that happening.
ENDA Kenny sed last month that their was a seismic shift in this??

Noonan,s going on wasted trips to “get the bank deal down ” when actually all he,s really interested is getting a job in the EU commission which is not right as he should be focusing on the fact that this country is fukd. Instead all him and co. in the dail, the only thing they like to think about is the money going in their back pockets.

What a disgrace to this country.!!

Under this system of political parties we have:

Massive fraud amounting to billions and no one is in jail.
Mismanagement of the State and economy; not just failure of supervision but actual collusion by the regulators. No one is in jail.
Shameful abuse of countless women and children and men in State or private institutions under State supervision, and no officials are in jail.
We are ruled over by a cabal of political parties of vested interests.

Note:

A cabal is a group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views and/or interests in a church, state, etc. often by intrigue.

http://www.change.org/petitions/supporting-the-irish-nation-step-down-from-government

I think most of us know what a cabal is, and it up to those who do to choose to look it up themselves. Don’t be repeating the same mistakes as the majority of politicians; disrespecting the public.

Noonan is 69 years old and you think he has his eye on the an EU Commissioner job……

I agree with david.

It will be much more lucrative to hand our country hook line and sinker to his bilderberg buddies.

@ Catherine -u are still giving out..but still offering no solutions…very lame. Put some solutions up and people might listen to you

Another load of lies Noonan.

We pumped billions into your bust banks to create a ”functioning” banking system.
Now these corrupt banks say that they are lending, and that they are servicing their customers needs, when they are doing nothing of the sort.
Lies.
We own these banks now Noonan and we have the right to know who they are lending to, because it certainly ain’t us.

In stable economies the government shuts down corrupt banks so as to allow the non corrupt ones to go about their business and to serve their customers,
in Ireland the government pumps billions of euros of taxpayer money into corrupt (and most likely criminal) banks and lets their customers (the taxpayer) starve.

So its back to the 80′s Noonan,
corrupt bankers looking after themselves and their cronies on the taxpayers dime,
corrupt politicians looking after themselves and their cronies on the taxpayer dime,
while the people who do the work are heading for the boat???

You and your bedfellows should be ashamed of yourself.
Weak, soft, toothless,spineless ”leaders”

@ Harry, you’ve clearly outlined your grievances, but can you put forward any viable solutions? Take the next step..

Nikolas – you seem to ask the same question of everyone who disagrees with your support of the current policies. Here are the solutions you ask for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGkmgnprrIU

I ask the same questions, regardless of whether the person I’m asking has an opinion close to mine or not, because I’m interested in what people think, and I’m very uncomfortable with a spirit of defeatism and rejection that’s leading to a repetition of what’s wrong, rather than stating how it could be better. I disagree with your ideas, but I do respect that you’re putting ideas forward. Solutions are more useful than problems, and facts are better than hearsay.

@Nikolas – your comment is very fair (I even gave you a thumbs up!)
What would you do different of you were a decision maker in government?

I can remember a show a few years back……..beginning to think now the whole thing was set up to get this guy looking rosy in the public’s eye again……what a disgrace !!!

O.K. Nikolas.
But aren’t the politicians, bankers and senior civil servants supposed to be the experts at solving problems,
is that not their job, isn’t that what they are paid 5 figure sums for?

However here are a few suggestions.
How about closing down all of these corrupt, diseased, dysfunctional, unregulated excuses for banks,
writing off the farcical debts that they dished out so recklessly/illegally,
so as to allow functional, regulated banks/credit unions into the market or allowing us to find out that maybe we can do without these so called ”banks” and their debt altogether?

How about reducing the size of our expensive, overstaffed government?

How about paying our government/senior civil servants on quantified performance only?

Anne, the euro is working perfectly, for the true owners of the central banks. It is being used to extract wealth from its host nations. They control our money supply. They flooded us during the Celtic Tiger era, now they are contracting our money supply. The result – bankruptcy and foreclosure – easy pickings for those who knew it was coming.

yep guess the “conspiracy theorists” were right after all.

The bureaucrats draw up proposals but nothing is approved until it goes through the Finance Ministers of Europe……

execelent video. thumbs up !