Richard Bruton
Today the government launched it’s legislation to set up NAMA – the national asset management agency.
This was met by many sound-bites from the opposition and the most of these were seen on the RTÉ 6.1 News. Arthur Morgan of Sinn Féin and Rurai Quinn of Labour both gave their reactions. They were negative and they highlighted the risks involved to the taxpayer. They also, however, drew attention to their own beliefs. They both want to nationalize the banks. Both were vocal on this however Richard Bruton failed to outline the Fine Gael plans.
Instead he gave another opposition style bashing of the government while providing no alternative. Even though we do have an alternative.
It’s very simple. The government wants a bad bank, we want a good bank. Richard Bruton himself wrote our policy document on it, yet he didn’t mention it tonight and it is rarely mentioned by anyone else in Fine Gael either. It must be publicized that we do have policies and we do have a plan for this country.
I think Richard Bruton should be the party leader however he needs to be more vocal on how we would do things. This goes for everyone Fine Gael member in the Oireachtas.
I believe that if Kenny steps down then the front bench would be an unstoppable team of Bruton as taoiseach and George Lee as the Finance Minister. We could even achieve an overall majority in the Dáil. Kenny is the only thing standing in the way.