MINISTER FOR PUBLIC Expenditure, Michael McGrath, has said that the Tánaiste should have raised issues about a handover of the Minister for Finance job in private with the Taoiseach.
Speaking about Varadkar’s comments on the finance issue on RTÉ’s This Week programme, Fianna Fáil minister McGrath said the details of the handover are “very much a matter for the party leaders.” McGrath has been the likely candidate to replace Donohoe in the December handover, which led to speculation that Ireland could lose its position as having the president of the Eurogroup if Donohoe ceases to be Minister for Finance.
“It would also raise questions about who answers in Dáil Éireann in respect of matters to do with European economic policy, capital, markets, banking, union, and so on. And it does sound like tantamount to a division of the Department of Finance, which is not something that we would agree with.
“We do have significant resources to deploy. We’re not going to use all of them immediately. Because we recognise high energy costs in particular are going to be with us for many months to come. And we will have to have capacity and firepower if necessary to respond next year to the kind of pressures that you rightly highlighted.”
Just watch how this client and his buddies in the hated Junta like to conduct publicly funded Government and the privileged spoils of office, from our dwindling pockets.....in PRIVATE,they disgust me.