O'Dea warns of 'tough budget' next week

[TheBear]

The government's official bearer of bad news has made another announcement completely irrelevant to his portfolio.

From The Irish Times:

• Minister for Defence Wille O’Dea today said “tough and decisive” action was required in difficult economic times and warned that the upcoming Budget would be severe.
  “Next week . . . the Minister for Finance will present his Budget. It is no secret that this will be one of the toughest Budgets in decades and that some hard decisions are being taken which will result in considerable reductions in public expenditure,” the Minister told the PDFORRA annual delegate conference in Westport, Co Mayo.
  “Over the past year we have seen a number of negative influences on the world economy and a small open economy, like ours, is not immune to what is happening in the rest of the world.”
  But Mr O’Dea added that the “underlying strength” of the Irish economy gave cause for considerable optimism, and that he was satisfied that “unlike any time in the past, Ireland is well positioned to deal with the consequences of the international slowdown”.
  He also referred to the State’s planned bank guarantee, saying the Government had acted quickly and decisively to address the difficulties that beset the banking sector and "potentially threatened the functioning of our economy and the continued distribution of the benefits of economic growth throughout society”.

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It just seems to me that O'Dea is the person who is sent out by the government whenever they need defending (I suppose that bit is fitting), or whenever they need to have the country softened up for a bad announcement.

[wysiwyg]

I know.. there's a good reason for this however...

The Limerick accent is quite grating by itself... but when delivered from behind a barbed wire moustache, the likes of which Wee Willie has, it is almost impossible to listen to... so people tend to tune out

Afterwards, when bad things happen, the overnment claim, but why are are you surprised... Willie told you all this months ago...

Clever trick really, isn't it

That and he's a short arse, who I'd like to smack

[draiocht23]

That and he's a short arse, who I'd like to smack

Enough of your sexual proclivities...

Mr O’Dea speaks about the “underlying strength” of the Irish economy while McCain says that the "fundamentals" of the American economy are fine and dandy - I wonder who is more deluded?

[wysiwyg]

Enough of your sexual proclivities...

Mr O’Dea speaks about the “underlying strength” of the Irish economy while McCain says that the "fundamentals" of the American economy are fine and dandy - I wonder who is more deluded?

Oh my, i never meant it like that.. perish the thought

[draiocht23]

Oh my, i never meant it like that.. perish the thought

I'm desperately trying, believe me!