Enda kenny speech 2011 04/12/11 Kenny poised to deliver State's sixth ever State of Nation address

Enda Kenny to prepare Irish for more budget pain‎ The Guardian State of the Nation Address From An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny
Kenny outlines challenges facing State in TV address‎ Irish Times
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny to make televised address later‎ BBC NewsTaoiseach Enda Kenny will prepare the country for a looming austerity Budget when he delivers an historic State of the Nation address tonight.

Mr Kenny's 10-minute speech, televised live after RTE's Nine O'Clock News, will outline the difficult challenge of plugging an €18bn hole in the public finances.

The Government will announce a €3.8bn adjustment over the next two days with Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin outlining €2.2bn in spending cuts tomorrow and Finance Minister Michael Noonan detailing €1.6bn of tax hikes on Tuesday.

It has agreed to make total savings of €12.4bn from now to 2015 to meet deficit targets outlined under the conditions of last year's EU/IMF bailout.

Budget 2012 will include €700m of cuts to social welfare, health and education spending.

The average two-child family could be left €240 worse-off per year following a €10 cut to child benefit.

Dole payments to the 440,000 job seekers on the live register may also be cut by €8 a week.

Some €500m of savings for the health budget is likely to be announced through a €50 annual charge for medical care and a 50% hike in prescription charges.

The Irish Patients Association warned these measures could cost lives among society's most vulnerable.

€1bn of the €2.2bn in spending will be sliced off the public service pay bill, which will include a possible 5% cut to allowances, premium pay and overtime to new doctors, nurses, teachers and gardai.

With low to medium earners taking such hard hits, Mr Howlin said it was important that high earners bear some of the burden too.

He will impose a 20% levy on pensions of public servants exceeding €100,000 a year.

However, the opposition has described the 20% levy, which will save just €400,000, as "scandalous".

Top pension earners, including former Taoisigh, chief justices and heads of state, will still bring home more than €100,000 after the levy.

Other spending cuts may result in university registration fees increasing by €250, along with the postgraduate grant being replaced with a loan.

As for tax hikes, VAT is certain to rise by 2% to 23%, along with increases in carbon tax on home heating and motor fuels, which could rise by at least €5 a tonne to €20.


This would add around 3c to a litre of petrol on top of the VAT rise.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has addressed the nation ahead of the announcement of more austerity measures in Budget 2012.

He said that in Budget 2012 - which will be unveiled on Monday and Tuesday - public spending must be cut by €2.2 billion, and that extra taxes must raise €1.6 billion.Enda Kenny -What i heard from his speach

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[sciron42]

look we can all shit on about blah blah blah here, last night i was out protesting at the Dail, GET OFF THE COMPUTER AND TAKE THE FUCKIN STREETS BACK!!!!!!!!

[smallyb2009]

@HoneyMonster666;The people voted for these criminals because they made promises,Do you think this shower would,ev got any votes if they told the Irish people that we were going to bail out corrupt bwankers in the u.s?That bastard kenny claims the budget was fair accross the board yet himself & his cronies take home thousands while we struggle. If 1000 men came to Ireland tomorrow & told the people they were going to rip us off we,d go crazy yet these paracites get away with it.

[MrGarrettjackson]

thats nice

[DestroyerDevers]

Look up d-day,blockade dublin.nows your chance

[ultraimpact2012]

enda kenny = Gentleman



[sidvidkid]

Only hope for ireland is to follow example of iceland...they locked up the criminal bankers, threw out the bum politicians brought some of em to trial, repudiate the fake debt and demand independance from overseas banking overlord parasites.

Icelands economy is now heading for growth this year,

Aherne and mccreevy should stand trial at the very least for their criminal treasonous behaviour.

[mjakes20]

Look, now, everyone thinks the tough opposition like Gerry Adams and Joe Higgins would be great and we need to get them in, but truth is, whatever bastards take office, they are going to do something that we will hate and will just deck up our economy even more. We need a revolution.

[seemack87]

Ireland is not an island nation!

[reilly87irl]

when are the irish people gonna stand up. do a coup were like pussies taking this of a corrupt government

[reilly87irl]

hate this fucking country despressing always fuckin bad news. Tax tax more fuckn tax... whats new? . same old same old. ireland republic of imf. we found for freedom now we ve lost our sovernty. make the working class pay. let the rich and politicians not pay a cent.

[darragh1980]

What a bullshitting wanker

[donegalflyfisher]

Please step down as taoiseach, you are one of the most negative people I have ever seen. You make young educated hard working adults want to leave this country. Focus on incentives and ways to incourage these talented young people or leave the dail.