Simple answer is that the single party state (FF) will be ended at the next election.
It takes a long time for generational voting to switch from FF but this will begin after the next budget.
No one in their lifetime will have experienced such a sharp adjustment of their incomes and it will begin to really hit home what a mess FF has made.
No other country in the EU is getting until 2013 to fix their mess. It blows a hole in their international factors BS they love to spout out.

We really need a true left in this country (that is not in bed with bloated union heads).
Until that day power will switch between FG/FF for the next 10-20 years.

Despite the recent polls- I expect the left slanted parties to do extremely well in the next election when unemployment is at 15% and the economy is back at pre 2000 levels.