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Semi-States should be re-tooled into engines for growth and job creation

7. 7. 2010

Image via Wikipedia A Jobless Recovery is not a Real Recovery   Speaking in the Dáil on Fine Gael’s Private Members’ Motion on the economy this evening (Wednesday), Party Communications [...]

Varadkar gives Govt four weeks to cut prices for consumers

1. 6. 2010

Image via Wikipedia FG Bill would force Govt to implement key McCarthy recommendations   Government Ministers would be given a four week deadline to cut prices of vital State items [...]

Credit Review Office remit should be extended to existing SME loans

25. 5. 2010

Image via Wikipedia Oireachtas Business hears final report on lending to business   Leo Varadkar TD, who will be speaking at the Economic & Regulatory Affairs Committee today (Tuesday), has [...]

FG laws will cut Govt prices & save Irish households €400 a year

1. 4. 2010

Image via Wikipedia Fine Gael Enterprise Spokesperson Leo Varadkar TD has published new laws to slash Government costs by 5%, saving the average household around €400 a year.   Deputy [...]

Varadkar calls for Govt action to bring down commercial rents

9. 3. 2010

FG to question Coughlan on commercial rents in Minister’s Questions today   Speaking in the Dáil during Enterprise Questions this afternoon, Fine Gael Enterprise Spokesman Leo Varadkar TD will call [...]

Ireland’s business sector being wiped out in ‘a perfect storm’

1. 3. 2010

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Govt pressure vital to make landlords cut rents   Ireland’s small business sector is being decimated by a ‘perfect storm’ of shrinking credit supplies [...]

FG to propose Jobs Plan in the Dáil Debate this week

21. 2. 2010

Image via Wikipedia Fine Gael will use its private members time this week to put forward its eight point plan to save jobs and to create tens of thousands of [...]

Have Govt or Regulator had any signals of other international banks leaving Irish market?

10. 2. 2010

Image via Wikipedia Genuine fears over 2,000+ more Irish jobs with other banks   Fine Gael Enterprise Spokesman Leo Varadkar TD has today (Wednesday) challenged the Government and Financial Regulator [...]

Coughlan refusing to act on loan guarantee for cash-strapped companies

2. 2. 2010

Image via Wikipedia Speaking in the Dáil today (Tuesday) during Enterprise questions, Fine Gael Enterprise Spokesman Leo Varadkar re-iterated Fine Gael’s call for the introduction of a Government-backed loan guarantee [...]

FF wage plan won’t end ‘daft’ system where hair dressers & pork butchers get paid more than barbers, bakers & beef butchers

26. 1. 2010

Image via Wikipedia Daft wage system needs reform   Minister Calleary’s reforms are a recipe for fudge   ‘Daft’ laws which see hair stylists being paid 6c an hour more [...]