John O'Donoghue -& his expenses

[stephenite]

Proper order that he has resigned

[Green Grass]

It was weird watching him chair a debate in the Dail about his own future....Mr Gilmore....Taoiseach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOxxiXXiM7I

A bit like Michael Martin in The House of Commons, when Douglas Carswell put down a motion expressing no confidence in the Speaker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o7m3HUZ8UE

[Pangurban]

O Donoghue is just the tip of a very big Ice-Berg

[Gnevin]

Keeping his seat, very nice of him to fall on his butter knife .

[no mo do yakamo]

He'll only keep his seat if the if there is an election called while he is still ceann comhairle. Unlikeley I'd say. But it does scupper the long term plan to oust jackie healey ray.

[Zapatista]

He'll only keep his seat if the if there is an election called while he is still ceann comhairle. Unlikeley I'd say. But it does scupper the long term plan to oust jackie healey ray.

I think Gnevin is saying that he will remain a TD is falling on a butter knife. If he is unfit for office then he is unfit for office and should resign from the public purse.


It looked to me the FF, FG, GN & Lab seemed to have it all nicely worked out. Cowen was surprised at what went on. He was expecting it all to go according to their cozy wee plan untill SF called for him to resign putting the pressure on Gilmore who broke ranks and stabbed Kenny in the back. Poor Enda dropped the ball on this one.

[Hound]

Fair fecks to Gilmore. It was what the people wanted, and he delivered it.

Is it true O'Donoghue loses his automatic re-election?

I'm sure there are a lot of nervous TDs wondering if they'll be next to be investigated...

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Is it true O'Donoghue loses his automatic re-election?.

Not if he lasts until next week and the Greens bring down the Government at the weekend, if he goes this week he loses it (hence his offer to resign next week).

[Shamrock Shore]

Those pesky Shinners again. I think Zapista has it spot on.

Now, I J H Rae will be generous towards his colleague and offer him a lift to Cahircveen seeing as the aud wheels and airplanes are no longer freebies!

[Lone Shark]

Fair fecks to Gilmore. It was what the people wanted, and he delivered it.

Problem is, the people don't always know what they want. Right now there is a public mood which seems to be wanting heads on spikes, but that's no use to us. Now I don't know what Enda Kenny was thinking, but it is possible that he could have been waiting for JOD to go to the oireachteas committee meeting today and hopefully dig the hole even further, or even having him still in place by the weekend, when the Green Party meet. His very presence would have been a lightning rod for the Greens and could have been the extra push that might have made them give up on Fianna Fáil.

Anyone who was watching Joseph Stiglitz on Prime Time last night should be fairly sure by now, if they weren't already, that it's bringing down the government before NAMA is implemented which should be the highest priority for the people of this state. Of course it's hard to see that for all the bloodlust.

[whiskeysteve]

with the taxpayer getting raped time and time again down mexico way with the most outrageous bailouts, expenses and corruption its plain a lot of these boys deserve jail time.

and ye mexicans just bend over and continue to take it up the ass 

can the mexicans do better than moral indignation or are yis just a bunch of patsys? 

[Hound]

Anyone who was watching Joseph Stiglitz on Prime Time last night should be fairly sure by now, if they weren't already, that it's bringing down the government before NAMA is implemented which should be the highest priority for the people of this state. Of course it's hard to see that for all the bloodlust.

Didnt see Stiglitz, but know he's against Obamas recovery initiatives as he deems them to be too pro-banker.

Did he give an alternative plan or just have a go at NAMA? Who's to say he's right rather than the economists who think NAMA is the best way forward? Nobody actually knows what to do, and only a few have come up with workable theories. NAMA could work out well, mightnt cost the taxpayer a penny - or it could be a total disaster that bankrupts us.

I'd like to see FG in government, but who's to say they'd implement a plan similar to Stiglitz (if he had a plan and it was a good one) rather than their own plan, which personally I think is worse than NAMA. As I said its not as if any of the politicians on any side know what the answer is.

[Farrandeelin]

FG didn't call for O'Donoghue's head as they'd lose a number when it came to voting in the Dáil debates.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

FG didn't call for O'Donoghue's head as they'd lose a number when it came to voting in the Dáil debates.

But surely that was just burying their heads in the sand Farrandeelin, and pretending that the inevitable wasn't actually inevitable? Besides the fact that it's not an absolute certainty that a replacement Ceann Comhairle will come from their ranks. They fcuked up, bigtime.

[Master Yoda]

There all a pile of thieving bastards.