Fine Gael's vested interests

Tim Robbins

What \ Who are Fine Gael's vested interests that can be established by fact?

zig

Their vested interest has been for the last few years to get in power and only that, they have been been like a puppy left outside in the cold barking, scratching the door, hopping about, and now that they are being let in they dont know what their doing , because they have forgotten the actual reasons for wanting to be in power.

marienbad

zig wrote: »

Their vested interest has been for the last few years to get in power and only that, they have been been like a puppy left outside in the cold barking, scratching the door, hopping about, and now that they are being let in they dont know what their doing , because they have forgotten the actual reasons for wanting to be in power.

And you this, how ?

Lockstep

The Greens have been going for Fine Gael over this recently. Hard to say where the vested interests are or where the funding comes from.



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Varadkar refuses to name attendees at fundraiser

Jolly Red Giant

Lockstep wrote: »

The Greens have been going for Fine Gael over this recently. Hard to say where the vested interests are or where the funding comes from.



Link

Varadkar refuses to name attendees at fundraiser

The GP should be done for false advertising - do they really think that the Socialist Party and the ULA get 'business' donations?

Victor

Jolly Red Giant wrote: »

The GP should be done for false advertising - do they really think that the Socialist Party and the ULA get 'business' donations?

They are referring to the parties in the chart.

And are you certain that they get no business donations?

Jolly Red Giant

Victor wrote: »

And are you certain that they get no business donations?

Yes - and are you surprised?

Lockstep

Jolly Red Giant wrote: »

The GP should be done for false advertising - do they really think that the Socialist Party and the ULA get 'business' donations?

Where does it say that?

thetonynator

Jolly Red Giant wrote: »

Yes - and are you surprised?

Have you any source to say so???

click_here!!!

An interesting bailout of AIB/Insurance Corporation of Ireland happened in 1985 under a Fine Gael government. It wasn't of course as large as the current ones, but it shows that Fine Gael isn't too different to the incumbents:

AIB, one of the country's biggest banks, got itself into a financial mess so dire that it threatened to bankrupt not only the bank itself but also the country.
This scenario may sound all too familiar but it happened in 1985, over twenty five years before the current Property Bust, Anglo Irish Bank Crisis and NAMA.
SCANNAL : Reservoir Bankers tells the story of AIB 's disastrous foray into the insurance business with its purchase of The Insurance Corporation of Ireland, a near catastrophe that served as a dress rehearsal for today's crisis.
Several of the major players in the scandal including the then Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald and Minister for Finance Alan Dukes along with writer/commentator Senator Shane Ross, financial expert Conall Ó Moráin and journalist Siobhan Creaton. How much did it cost? And did we learn anything?
"We obviously didn't learn much in terms of supervising the banks, clearly whatever lesson should have been learned did not pass on but then again I don't think we're great at institutional memory in this country.." Dr Garret Fitzgerald (former Taoiseach)
SCANNAL unravels a tale of deceit, incompetence and corporate arrogance and a cast of characters and outrageous plot twists that would make Quentin Tarantino blush.

http://www.rte.ie/tv/scannal/reservoirbankers.html

Also, Alan Dukes (former Fine Gael leader) is the current head of Anglo Irish bank.

I should add that I]m voting for Greens and Fine Gael.

CDfm

click_here!!! wrote: »

An interesting bailout of AIB/Insurance Corporation of Ireland happened in 1985 under a Fine Gael government. It wasn't of course as large as the current ones, but it shows that Fine Gael isn't too different to the incumbents:




http://www.rte.ie/tv/scannal/reservoirbankers.html

Also, Alan Dukes (former Fine Gael leader) is the current head of Anglo Irish bank.

That is true and Alan Shatter has a huge family law practice and has been criticised in the past over laws passed by him " Shattered by Shatter" is a phrase I have heard to describe how the laws work.

He says he wrote the law on it ( & the law books)

One of our partners, Alan Shatter is author "Shatters Family Law", is a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a former Consultant on Family Law to the Law Society of Ireland. He is an overseas member of the English Solicitors Family Law Association (Resolution). He has been a member of Dail Eireann (the Irish Parliament) for over 25 years and has been substantially involved in parliamentary Debates relating to the enactment of all recent family law statutes, a number of which he originated.

http://www.gallaghershatter.ie/law_dublin/family_divorce_child.htm

The Brutons and the Greyhound Industry - I believe - thats not a dig by the way.

I am sure there are lots of vested interests in FG - thats just what I know of off the top of my head.