The RTE Late Debate Heckle

[PaddyJoe]

10pm on Radio One.
"Is the sale of state assets a sensible way to raise cash, short-term thinking or …’treachery’?"
Presented by Clare Byrne(RTE's "only left wing" presenter, according to Vinb
With Peader Tobin, SF; Liam Twomey, FG, Tony Foley, DCU; Jane Suiter, UCC and Sarah McInenery of the Sunday Times.

[PaddyJoe]

Enda Kenny meets Angela Merkel tomorrow: no set agenda according to Derek Scally in Berlin. Just a friendly chat, so?

[PaddyJoe]

Liam Twomey thinks the the EZ crisis is settling....

[PaddyJoe]

Will Enda be talking to Angela about his advice from the AG on a possible referendum, asks Peader Tobin.

[Dr. FIVE]

Bloody Greeks, I worked for nothing and was bloody glad of it blah blah blah

[PaddyJoe]

Liam Twomey on economic policy:
1. There is no alternative
2. Its FF's fault
3. 'Lehmans"
"Lehmans', even now

[PaddyJoe]

UNITE said this evening that they may ballot ESB workers on privatisation.

[PaddyJoe]

Good point from Sarah McInenery: "The 3.1 billion promissory notes payment due at the end of March completely wiipes out all of the receipts from privatisations"

[Dr. FIVE]

yip,

The HSE overspend wiped out the USC

[PaddyJoe]

Alex White, Lab, Michael O'Regan, IT, Richard Boyd Barret, Priscilla Lynch and Tom Lyons of the Sunday Times.
Discussing the Children's Hospital.

[Dr. FIVE]

Good stuff from Priscilla Lynch (medical independent) so far

[PaddyJoe]

Good stuff from Priscilla Lynch (medical independent) so far

Certainly sounds pretty competent. But then you'd kinda hope for that from people in the medical profession

[Dr. FIVE]

Certainly sounds pretty competent. But then you'd kinda hope for that from people in the medical profession

A Hack who knows what they'e talking about will do.

[PaddyJoe]

I heard Noel Smyth this morning going on about he was still offering to build the children's hospital down in Newlands Cross. Has he managed to block out the fact that he's so deep into NAMA that they have seized his art collection?

[C. Flower]

I heard Noel Smyth this morning going on about he was still offering to build the children's hospital down in Newlands Cross. Has he managed to block out the fact that he's so deep into NAMA that they have seized his art collection?

"For no profit" as I recall. Presumably "at cost" including fees and construction costs.