Have Cowen and Coughlan been telling the truth about Ryanair offer of 500 jobs?

[MPB]

According to the Irish Independent today Ryanair offered to buy Hangar 6 for 13 million( the market value determined by the DAA in its payment to SR Technics) with the creation of 500 jobs.

They also agreed to lease it for 200,000 a year, the existing rate and agreed to only use it for heavy aircraft maintenance. IDA chief Barry o Leary was so delighted with their offer that he declared it" the largest job creation success story in Ireland in 2009".

The offer was made before SRT had vacated Ireland and months before Aer Lingus had moved in with no jobs created. In fact Aer Lingus retained 96 out of 250 jobs in line maintenance in return for Hangar 6.

The Taoiseach and the Tainiste I believe have misled the Dail and the Ex SRT workers about their reasons for rejecting Ryanairs offer and about the circumstances under which the lease was given to Aer Lingus.

I believe this to be a far bigger story with far greater consequences for this Government than the Willie o Dea story and therefore I believe it merits a seperate thread to the one already running on a related issue.

There are 500 highly skilled workers and their families currently unnecessarily unemployed today because of Brian Cowen and Mary Coughlans problems with Michael o Leary.

They were offered 500 jobs at the height of a jobs crisis. Why did they reject this offer? Do we have 500 unemployed people in this country because of the personal pride of our Taoiseach and Tainiste?

[He3]

Do we have 500 unemployed people in this country because of the personal pride of our Taoiseach and Tainiste?

The number of people without jobs because of the governance skills of the current leadership of FF and senior advisers and is somewhere north of four hundred and sixty thousand.

To them, a few hundred is chickenfeed, especially when their egos are on the line.

[ang]

Mr O' Leary definitely thinks the government are misleading.

RYANAIR has written to the Taoiseach demanding he correct "false claims" he made in the Dáil this week in relation to the dispute over job creation at Dublin Airport.



In one of two letters sent to the Government yesterday, the airline’s chief executive told Brian Cowen that the claims he made in the Dáil were damaging and defamatory towards his company.




Read more: O?Leary demands Cowen correct ?false Dáil claims? | Irish Examiner

Certainly going to get interesting.

[birthday]

According to the Irish Independent today Ryanair offered to buy Hangar 6 for 13 million( the market value determined by the DAA in its payment to SR Technics) with the creation of 500 jobs.

They also agreed to lease it for 200,000 a year, the existing rate and agreed to only use it for heavy aircraft maintenance. IDA chief Barry o Leary was so delighted with their offer that he declared it" the largest job creation success story in Ireland in 2009".

The offer was made before SRT had vacated Ireland and months before Aer Lingus had moved in with no jobs created. In fact Aer Lingus retained 96 out of 250 jobs in line maintenance in return for Hangar 6.

The Taoiseach and the Tainiste I believe have misled the Dail and the Ex SRT workers about their reasons for rejecting Ryanairs offer and about the circumstances under which the lease was given to Aer Lingus.

I believe this to be a far bigger story with far greater consequences for this Government than the Willie o Dea story and therefore I believe it merits a seperate thread to the one already running on a related issue.

There are 500 highly skilled workers and their families currently unnecessarily unemployed today because of Brian Cowen and Mary Coughlans problems with Michael o Leary.

They were offered 500 jobs at the height of a jobs crisis. Why did they reject this offer? Do we have 500 unemployed people in this country because of the personal pride of our Taoiseach and Tainiste?

This is the article.
Ryanair made €13m offer for hangar months before rival - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie
If this has legs next week should be interesting.

[Digout]

They have def been lying, all will become clear later this week. O Leary will take the government down.

[dunno]

Maybe if this hangar was in Offally it might be different, but losing face is far more important to our dreadful rulers.

[Digout]

Documents to be released later this week will prove that both Caughlin and Cowen lied in the Dail.

[MPB]

This is the article.
Ryanair made €13m offer for hangar months before rival - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie
If this has legs next week should be interesting.

Thanks Birthday.

[jmcc]

Documents to be released later this week will prove that both Caughlin and Cowen lied in the Dail.

I guess this is yet another one of those "Oh F*ck!" moments in the history of an government riddled with them.

Regards...jmcc

[MPB]

Documents to be released later this week will prove that both Caughlin and Cowen lied in the Dail.

Surely if they have been found to have misled the Dail over something as serious as the jobs and lives of 500 families they have to resign and call an Election.