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THE TAOISEACH HAS insisted that the stability of government will not be affected by Labour’s month-long leadership contest.
Enda Kenny was speaking at Leinster House today where he welcomed Fine Gael’s newest TD Gabrielle McFadden.
He also said that he would not be bringing forward the planned Cabinet reshuffle until after Labour’s leadership battle is completed.
The process of nominations and voting is likely to take a month with Labour’s new leader, and the likely next Tánaiste, being announced on 4 July.
“There is another matter to be tended to by the Labour Party,” Kenny said today adding “that’s their business and we’ll let them at it”.
He insisted that the stability of the coalition will not be impacted by the contest.
“There’ll be no difficult insofar as stability of the government is concerned,” he said.
“This is very important for the country, for the economy of the country, for growth and jobs and the work that we have started.”
He said that the decisions the government has made in recent years were “very difficult” but added: “We had to make them to restore confidence and stability in our country.”
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Shove the excuses up your backside Enda, the people aren’t listening to you , and your not listening to the people!
You appear to be listening.
No ones listening to crap that comes from his mouth needs to do the desent thing call general election
The End…a is Nigh…long live Fine Gael… :
Mr Kenny has snared himself in this statement …”won’t be destabilized”.
Our Taoiseach has not understood the electorate and fails to face reality,
this coalition government …is unstable. Fine did lose 100 local authority seats.
Bring on the clowns…popping up all over the place like a jackinthebox seems to imply worrying instability.
Sack the script writers…bring on the clowns…
The Circus is leaving town.
Kenny your already destabilised again you can’t see beyond what’s happening in your own head, do the right thing for once and call a general election
For all his shouting in opposition when support for the FF/Greens coalition was crumbling, he’s awfully silent now.
Kenny for once is right Labour are just a bunch of yes men and women and will not disturb or change the direction of this government.
Keeny is right labour are all yes men and women but forgot to say his party are bunch biggest yes men in Europe afraid to be spanked by merkel and co
His hubris, so soon after the beating he’s taken in the election, is quite special.
Green thumb for Micheal Martin as Taoiseach. Red thumb for Enda Kenny. It will be one or other after the next general election.
Remember Martin was the Minister who set up the HSE!
Unforgivable!
Kenny has total control of the situation.
Our government is a joke ! Banks own ireland ! Until the people realise this and do something about it were f–ked
The one thing you can be sure of edna is this, with a change in leader and a political kicking in the elections mean labours new leader and the last die hard TD’s they have will not bend over so easily to FG and its rich and elite masters in the banks and europe so lets all hope for a rocky and very rough enough few months that might be enough to bring this shambles of a government down so we can send the political class here and in mafia HQ in brussels a very clear message, that the irish arent the austerity experimental monkeys everyone thinks we are and that we the people have teeth and can bite back after the kicking in cuts and taxes while watching those responsible walk away scot free and with huge pay-offs
you can say that again.
Blah! Blah! Blah! Oh! And by the way…
If Joan Burton Gets the Leadership of Labour. Enda Kenny will meet his match.She will be no pushover.
Burton has been a part of this government for three years, so far I can’t say I have seen anything other than another Labour pushover who’s only interested in the pension.
Time for you to go now enda you
Still don’t get it your days are numbered and take the rest of the shit heads with you
OH YES YOU WILL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get out Enda … Let Joan fix this country … You have had your time now let the Labour Party have a chance of running the country with Joan at the helm …..
No, take them all out, every last one of them. We need new blood under 45 years of age at least with absolute zero connections to past governments. Snake head off.
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