Cowen's major announcement

outandabout · 20-01-2011 1:22pm #1

Cowen expected to address Dáil at 1.30pm

according to RTE website who says he will reveal how he plans to deal with the miniserial resignations.

DarkJager · 20-01-2011 1:24pm

Unless he's announcing that his group of imbecilies including himself are going out the door, then nobody gives a ****. Don't talk to us anymore Cowen until you give us the news we want.

hotmail.com · 20-01-2011 1:26pm

One thing is for sure, he won't be resigning.

DarkJager · 20-01-2011 1:27pm

hotmail.com wrote: »

One thing is for sure, he won't be resigning.

Of course he won't. He's going to push the patience of the Irish people so much, he'll have his own version of Tunisia to deal with.

sceptre · 20-01-2011 1:28pm

I fixed your link, outandabout, you had boards.ie rather than rte.ie in the link itself. Easily fixed, thanks for the link.

lucozader · 20-01-2011 1:28pm

he will declare himself as absolute ruler and supreme dictator of Ireland

AnnyHallsal · 20-01-2011 1:30pm

I fear yet another anti-climax.

whitetigerkungf · 20-01-2011 1:31pm

DarkJager wrote: »

Of course he won't. He's going to push the patience of the Irish people so much, he'll have his own version of Tunisia to deal with.

I doubt it Irish people are to concerned about themselves to do anything to get rid of the government. We have a culture of giving out but not actually doing anything about it.

snubbleste · 20-01-2011 1:32pm

We are where we are and the reality is that going forward that that that I do not accept that..

Colmo52 · 20-01-2011 1:32pm

He'll probably just tell us what he had for breakfast...

BlaasForRafa · 20-01-2011 1:32pm

lucozader wrote: »

he will declare himself as absolute ruler and supreme dictator of Ireland

newstalk seem to think that cowen will announce the doubling up of ministerial positions. Given that there aren't that many ministers left you might not be far off the mark.

Colmo52 · 20-01-2011 1:33pm

snubbleste wrote: »

We are where we are and the reality is that going forward that that that I do not accept that..

He'll quote some figures aswell.

patchmck · 20-01-2011 1:33pm

It's all starting to feel like the dying days of a brutal dictatorship... 'Only God has the power to remove me now!' and the like.

Pity we're a nation of moaners and not doers like those Tunisians and Greeks I've been watching and admiring on the news

gandalf · 20-01-2011 1:33pm

Personally I haven't been motivated to march and protest before because of the elements calling those protests but I will be out if there is not an immediate election called.

hotmail.com · 20-01-2011 1:34pm

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

newstalk seem to think that cowen will announce the doubling up of ministerial positions. Given that there aren't that many ministers left you might not be far off the mark.

Surely if Cowen can't appoint new ministers, his position is completely untennable.

BBC - two junior ministers threaten to resign if Cowen promotes ministers.

Sponge Bob · 20-01-2011 1:35pm

O Cuiv will be promoted to a more senior ministry I hear.

drunkmonkey · 20-01-2011 1:35pm

The ministers have gone, were all still ok the sky hasn't fallen. Would it be safe to say we can live without them?
Do we even need a Taoiseach, just have a president.

johngalway · 20-01-2011 1:35pm

My prediction.

Greens do deal with FF, Greens support Finance bill and new ministers, for FF's support for Climate bill. Life goes on unhappily.

Sulmac · 20-01-2011 1:35pm

No matter what he says, I bet that David Davin-Power calls it a "great/rousing/strong performance".

SeaFields · 20-01-2011 1:36pm

hotmail.com wrote: »

Surely if Cowen can't appoint new ministers, his position is completely untennable.

It would require him to be in touch with reality to realise this.

r3nu4l · 20-01-2011 1:36pm

Here we go...watching it live

Resignations accepted

Some Waffle about how great those Ministers have been...

Anything else?

squonk · 20-01-2011 1:36pm

Listening now... jesus he's talking some bollox going on about the lads who resigned. Wanker!

BlaasForRafa · 20-01-2011 1:36pm

hotmail.com wrote: »

Surely if Cowen can't appoint new ministers, his position is completely untennable.

BBC - two junior ministers threaten to resign if Cowen promotes ministers.

Apparently there is precedent for this. Newstalk said that Fine Gael did it in 1987 when Labour pulled out of that government.

s_carnage · 20-01-2011 1:37pm

If Cowen promotes someone to minister does that entitle them to a ministerial pension??

outandabout · 20-01-2011 1:38pm

It's live on the RTE player at rte.ie at the moment. So far nothing but what a great group of people the former Ministers were.

I didn't realise how much they had actually achieved.

BlaasForRafa · 20-01-2011 1:38pm

squonk wrote: »

Listening now... jesus he's talking some bollox going on about the lads who resigned. Wanker!

Eulogies for those useless gobs****s, its enough to make one sick.

gandalf · 20-01-2011 1:38pm

Have the Greens arrived yet? No sign of them from the coverage!

Flimbos · 20-01-2011 1:38pm

Blah Blah Blah...

Same old rubbish.

Tabnabs · 20-01-2011 1:38pm

s_carnage wrote: »

If Cowen promotes someone to minister does that entitle them to a ministerial pension??

No, they won't be in office long enough.

AnnyHallsal · 20-01-2011 1:39pm

s_carnage wrote: »

If Cowen promotes someone to minister does that entitle them to a ministerial pension??

No, I believe they have to be in the position for two years to be entitled. They get severance pay: 75% of two months' ministerial salary I heard.

ThisRegard · 20-01-2011 1:39pm

FFS, he aint going anywhere.

SeaFields · 20-01-2011 1:39pm

s_carnage wrote: »

If Cowen promotes someone to minister does that entitle them to a ministerial pension??

No, they wouldn't be in the position long enough although I think there is a loss of office payment when the GE is called :rolleyes:

squonk · 20-01-2011 1:39pm

The news is... there's no news. He's not going! Unbelievable!!

Flimbos · 20-01-2011 1:40pm

This is nothing more than a high profile party political broadcast.

Tabnabs · 20-01-2011 1:40pm

Coughlan for Health, straight swap so... :rolleyes:

r3nu4l · 20-01-2011 1:40pm

r3nu4l wrote: »

Anything else?

Didn't think so! :mad:

"Government has worked hard in the National Interest" - Er, I don't think so!

Re-assigning Ministerial positions. What a load of crap!

hotmail.com · 20-01-2011 1:40pm

Mary Hanafin left out.

seamus · 20-01-2011 1:40pm

We'll he's not going to dissolve the government today anyway.

Health - Coughlan

Transport - Carey

Justice - Brendan Smith

Enterprise - Hanafin

Defence - O'Cuiv.

maynooth_rules · 20-01-2011 1:40pm

So yet again the Greens let FF spin out of a mess and carry on. Sweet Jesus

BlaasForRafa · 20-01-2011 1:40pm

Jesus wept....Mary Coughlan, Minister for Health....

johngalway · 20-01-2011 1:40pm

Unoccupied ministries gone to existing ministers :eek:

mike65 · 20-01-2011 1:41pm

So there we are, the cabinet was always far too big.

Tabnabs · 20-01-2011 1:41pm

March 11th, tick tock!!!!!

Flimbos · 20-01-2011 1:41pm

Election - Friday 11th March.

Amtmann · 20-01-2011 1:41pm

11 March election!

seamus · 20-01-2011 1:41pm

GE on Friday 11th March.

Less than two months.

DoesNotCompute · 20-01-2011 1:41pm

GE: 11th March

maynooth_rules · 20-01-2011 1:41pm

11th of March election, the FF cronies will be fuming they will miss their paddys day knees up at the taxpayers expense

sdanseo · 20-01-2011 1:41pm

Election Friday, 11th March.

johngalway · 20-01-2011 1:41pm

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Jesus wept....Mary Coughlan, Minister for Health....

Come back Harney, all is forgiven :rolleyes:

outandabout · 20-01-2011 1:41pm

Mary Coughlan gets Health, Pat Carey is Transport, Michael Smith is Justice, Eamon O'Cuiv defence in additionn to their existing ministries.

Cowen's major announcement

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