Will Enda make a state of the nation speech every year pre budget?

[YesSireeeBob]

there are a few more tough budgets coming in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 as we stick to the agreed troika plan.

will Enda make a speech before each of these budgets?

after all they maybe as hard, if not harder than this year's budget, but for sure the impact will be a lot harder as people will have taken multiple cuts and tax increases as the budgets go on.


last night Enda talked about jobs and making sure our mess never happens again, what will he say in the following years?


if he doesn't make a speech next year, and with billions of cuts to be made, he will come under big pressure from the media.


JOURNALIST: Taoiseach, you are about to make large cuts in the budget, why are you not going to speak to the people like you did last year?
Is is because your policies have failed?

tough times ahead for Kenny.

[Marvar88]

there are a few more tough budgets coming in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 as we stick to the agreed troika plan.

will Enda make a speech before each of these budgets?

after all they maybe as hard, if not harder than this year's budget, but for sure the impact will be a lot harder as people will have taken multiple cuts and tax increases as the budgets go on.


last night Enda talked about jobs and making sure our mess never happens again, what will he say in the following years?


if he doesn't make a speech next year, and with billions of cuts to be made, he will come under big pressure from the media.

I think the Taoiseach of the day no matter what party they are from should be making a State of the Nation address at least once a year. In the US Obama is constantly at it, he even has a weekly radio address. We the taxpayers are who they are representing so they should be telling us what is going on. Shows how unusual it is in Ireland that there was such fuss about it. The more it becomes the norm the less hysteria you would get.


JOURNALIST: Taoiseach, you are about to make large cuts in the budget, why are you not going to speak to the people like you did last year?
Is is because your policies have failed?

tough times ahead for Kenny.

I believe the Taoiseach whichever party they are from should make a State of the Nation address at least once a year. In the US Obama is at it all the time. He even has a weekly radio address. We, the taxpayers are who they are representing and should be told what is going on. It shows how unusual it is in Ireland that there was so much fuss about it. The more it becomes the norm the less hysteria there will be over it.

[MPB]

No. They will just replay this one every year.

As long as they keep paying Bank debt and punishing citizens with austerity in order to do so, the deficit will always be 16 billion and more.

Our real deficit is intellectual.

[Astral Peaks]

Our real deficit is intellectual.

Yours certainly is..................

[Mackers]

Enda won't but Mrs Merkel just might.

[Rospuppy]

was that a state of the nation speech or what... Rivetting stuff from a lad on >200k pa.... if thats the best out "top" civil servants can produce will the last person out turn off the lights... the people were not responsible eytc but by Jayus ye will pay for it....

[Ulster-Lad]

Enda won't but Mrs Merkel just might.

I was about to say the say thing.

[Cassandra Syndrome]

My opinion of the speech last night is that it excavated the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism — the narcissism — that dominate the culture of this government to this day.......

[CarnivalOfAction]

Enda won't but Mrs Merkel just might.

OTOH Enda might grow a pair:

[CarnivalOfAction]

OTOH Enda might grow a pair:

I heard that when Enda Kenny, on becoming Taoiseach, went to Europe to lay down his marker to Merkel and Sarkozy he was promptly told to “sit down in the corner and be quiet, you gob************************e.”

The story came back to my mind as
Enda was allowed a big night out by his
imperial masters of the EU and IMF to
deliver their “state of the nation”
address. Little Enda was turned out
nice and shiny to deliver the script
prepared by his minders. It is possible
that in his tiny little mind he thought it
was his own script he was delivering.
He began with a watery smile. “Good
evening.” We were living in exceptional
times, and he was going to tell the
truth. And he was into the script.
We were all in this together. He told
us how bad things were for the ordinary
citizen. Really?
He dropped the shocker when he
told us: “You are not responsible for
this crisis.” I jumped for joy. Even the
cats looked pleased.
“We were not responsible.” I
repeated it aloud. My wife raised an eye
and asked, “Then why are we paying for
it?”

He continued about making
decisions, cutting deficits and bridging
gaps. Ourselves alone could do this by
working together, cutting public spending
and raising taxes. Much has been
done: 20,000 jobs (when? where? what
kind?) and training places (stacking
shelves in Tesco?) have been created.

The budget will be tough. We should
have a lower deficit by 2015. And then
things will get even better. There will
be jobs. Work gives focus, hope, independence.
He didn’t quite say, “Work
sets you free.”
What was unsaid was that this would
be Blueshirt work: work or starve. Take
what you get and consider yourself
lucky. And no unions here.

Income tax (which might hit the
rich) will be untouched. Instead €1.6
billion will be got from indirect taxes
(which will hit the poor).
He mentioned decisions that we
already knew about, like the Children’s
Hospital, but no reprieves on ward or
hospital closures or reductions in frontline
staff. There was only the certainty
of more cut-backs. No hope for the
poor, the elderly, the sick. No reprieve
for special-needs kids.

He said that the indirect taxes will
be hard for many people. The shadow of
Patrick McGilligan crossed the screen.
It’s all part of a four-year plan. And
this is just the first instalment.
Out in the well-heated, plush golf
clubs, ranchers’ lounges and exclusive
hotels there was no doubt many a sigh
of satisfaction. Things will go on as
normal.

In ordinary homes, stressed-out
citizens—young and old—will worry
more about what the future holds,
worry over education, work, children,
health, heat, light, fuel, and bills. Ahead
lies the promise of no comfort or
dignity in old age.

This is Enda’s and Pat’s country.
No country for the poor, the old, the
young, the disabled, or low-wage
workers. A country with nothing on
offer except bluster and betrayal.
At this stage the cats were back
asleep, and I felt stupid for looking for
decency and hope from a Blueshirt
lackey. There was more blather as he
finished . . .

And I thought, What a pity he wasn’t
left in his owners’ corner.