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Questions and Answers, 1st December 2008
- 12:32 PM Simon McGarr - And we’re out.
- 12:32 PM Simon McGarr - Is it just me or does even the theme music sound tired?
- 11:38 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - you know the story about the pilots? they borrowed money to buy aer lingus shares at 2.90.
- 11:37 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - just watching this news about aer lingus.
- 11:33 PM Suzy Byrne - another boffin in audience talks pensions and money and the programme expires like the usual damp squib..
- 11:33 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - you should have to get legal advice before you enter a pension scheme. i’ve always said that.
- 11:32 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - jay advised all his employees to go into the self-administered schemes.
- 11:31 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - it works for vhi i suppose, so why not stretch the concept? these guys are good.
- 11:31 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - yes. allow companies to trade insolvent. that’s a brilliant idea.
- 11:30 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - batt seems quite interested.
- 11:30 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - let’s hope everyone doesn’t retire today;.
- 11:30 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - the bruni effect was the real cause of the PD downfall.
- 11:29 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - it’s easy to see why michael was so anxious to get out of politics.
- 11:29 PM Suzy Byrne - and cyclicals..
- 11:29 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - i love a good discussion about annuities.
- 11:27 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - indeed. the sound stack on my pc seems to have caved in.
- 11:26 PM Simon McGarr - Half way to the ideal.
- 11:26 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - i can see them but i can’t hear them.
- 11:25 PM Simon McGarr - Pension Timebomb? Nobody told me.
- 11:25 PM Simon McGarr - Tellingly, that ad break prompted more interesting discussion than the programme.
- 11:25 PM Simon McGarr - And we’re back.
- 11:24 PM Simon McGarr - Just noticed they’ve got one of those State Swirl logos.
- 11:24 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - bowman would have to take the show on tour if he wanted to have him on though. What with the injunction and all.
- 11:24 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - Stri eaming
- 11:23 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - that guy on the pat kenny show had the right idea.
- 11:23 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - there must have been too many people watching it. no point spending licence money on something like that.
- 11:23 PM Suzy Byrne - Sounds like it be another while before you watch again Antoin! But one night if you stick with it you might see a govt minister assaulted or take flight or something!
- 11:22 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - do rte not have any streaming at all on their site now?
- 11:22 PM Simon McGarr - Goodnight Valerie. Check in to find out tomorrow how it ends. My money`s on a twist ending where Matt Cooper kills Batt O’Keefe with a jigsaw.
- 11:22 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - still it’s good to see the government committing itself to competition in the transport sector.
- 11:21 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - i don’t know how i made that mistake.
- 11:21 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - sorry, since i watched.
- 11:21 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - i suppose it’s a while since I lost.
- 11:21 PM Suzy Byrne - definitely only middling boring this one…
- 11:21 PM Valerie Woods - I’m up at 6 bells in the am and have a gig tomorrow night and the following night, so I’m going to say goodnight to you all now. Goodnight!
- 11:20 PM Simon McGarr - That still puts it somewhere beyond reading a black and white pamphlet about someone else’s expreiences watching paint dry.
- 11:19 PM Valerie Woods - Don’t forget Bertie’s make up allowance….I don’t think Biffo spends that much in the auld tonsorial parlour
- 11:19 PM Simon McGarr - Antoin, those of us who carry the scars of boredom from previous liveblogs will attest that this is only middling boring.
- 11:18 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - all these people are very boring if you ask me.
- 11:17 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - Most of the panel, together with all of the audience believe that the decision of a state to own an airline is sort of a fashion or lifestyle decision, a little like a FAS CEO deciding whether to fly first class or privately, or a government minister deciding whether or not to have the aul’ nails done.
- 11:16 PM Suzy Byrne - Roy Keane and Sunderland – how long more will it last… Niamh Brennan knows nothing..
- 11:16 PM Valerie Woods - Management is management
- 11:16 PM Valerie Woods - I didn’t know that they had a tiff!
- 11:15 PM Valerie Woods - ?
- 11:15 PM Valerie Woods - Our Education minister can’t say million…how many millon is he realistically hoping to save
- 11:14 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - if that is how that word is indeed spelt.
- 11:14 PM Antoin O Lachtnain - I was not going to come, but i saw a bit of the discussion on aer lingus and i just had to pillory these nincumpoops.
- 11:14 PM Valerie Woods - If politicians and senior civil servants took meaningful pay cuts for a few years it would be a lot easier for people to listen to them telling them to “take the pain”
- 11:13 PM Simon McGarr - All the scoops here.
- 11:13 PM Simon McGarr - Inside info here: Batt O’Keefe once scolded his daughter for doing a jigsaw which encroached on his papers.
- 11:12 PM Valerie Woods - Solution found
- 11:12 PM Suzy Byrne - Matt Cooper is very quiet tonight! thankfully.
- 11:12 PM Simon McGarr - We just get Jay Bourke’s Daddy to pay for 3rd level fees.
- 11:11 PM Suzy Byrne - and bashes teachers for absenteeism….
- 11:11 PM Valerie Woods - That’s a comfort to know
- 11:11 PM Simon McGarr - And tells us that his Daddy used to top up the fees. Problem solved.
- 11:11 PM Valerie Woods - A large part of the problem is that senior public servants are grossly overpaid and out of touch with reality
- 11:11 PM Simon McGarr - Jay Bourke assures us that he’s a university graduate.
- 11:11 PM Suzy Byrne - she’s looking for more work/private contracts in change management…possibly..
- 11:11 PM Simon McGarr - Again, we’re told the government needs to live within its means. The spirit of Hubert Hoover is alive and well in Ireland.
- 11:10 PM Valerie Woods - It isn’t in the long term interest of the country for our labour force to have it’s quality eroded
- 11:10 PM Simon McGarr - Struggling though life.
- 11:09 PM Suzy Byrne - Prof. Brennan is a public sector worker herself! (And then some…)
- 11:09 PM Simon McGarr - I reject Niamh Brennan’s initial position. She opens with the conventional wisdom that the government will have to live within its means. Like most conventional wisdom, this is mostly wrong.
- 11:08 PM Suzy Byrne - Niamh Brennan – management professor and ex PD leader spouse…
- 11:08 PM Simon McGarr - Rival man in a suit defends the teachers from Men In Suits.
- 11:08 PM Suzy Byrne - Grannies are concerned
- 11:08 PM Simon McGarr - Man in suit says he regrets that these cuts had to be made. I regret he has not been cut from society.
- 11:07 PM Valerie Woods - I’ll be there in a mo
- 11:07 PM Suzy Byrne - FFer in audience! complaining about pupils being used to campaign…
- 11:06 PM Suzy Byrne - and here come the pupils!
- 11:06 PM Simon McGarr - Valerie, the diehard Liveblogger tunes into the live stream from RTE.
- 11:05 PM Valerie Woods - I can’t watch O’Keefe anyway this close to bed time
- 11:05 PM Simon McGarr - Oh, god. Do I really have to listen to Batt O’Keefe?
- 11:04 PM Valerie Woods - My TV has been hijacked
- 11:04 PM Suzy Byrne - and is poorly prepared…prepare to fail
- 11:04 PM Simon McGarr - They’re like backing dancers. You won’t know they’re teachers without some kids nearby.
- 11:03 PM Suzy Byrne - TUI member brings his pupils
- 11:03 PM Simon McGarr - The first since the Summer.
- 11:03 PM Simon McGarr - School students have been let into the audience. I fear their questioning.
- 11:03 PM Suzy Byrne - Is that the first cabinet minister other than O’Cuiv we’ve see on Q&A in a while?
- 11:02 PM Simon McGarr - Where do teachers buy their jackets?
- 11:02 PM Suzy Byrne - Labour party member agrees with Roisin Shorthall…
- 11:02 PM Simon McGarr - Batt O’Keefe seemingly has been talking endlessly.
- 11:01 PM Suzy Byrne - Batt O’Keefe lies about disadvantaged schools and disadvantaged pupils not being touched…
- 10:50 PM Simon McGarr - Anyone know who else we have?
- 10:47 PM Simon McGarr - Roisin Shorthall,
- 10:46 PM Simon McGarr - Matt Cooper, Batt O’Keefe, Jay Bourke,
- 10:45 PM Simon McGarr - And the Panel is…
- 12:27 AM Simon McGarr - Now with one of those Facebook Pages all to itself, it’s Ireland’s most Liveblogged show.
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