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...Data visualisation by Keith Fray Letter in response to this article: Challenging the claim that Ireland needs higher taxes / From Joe Lenihan, Dublin, Ireland...
...Michael Noonan, finance minister in the Fine Gael-Labour government which took power in February, said Lenihan was “very effective in controlling the budget which was totally out of control when he became...
...Michael D. Higgins, Labour party president, who at 70 is the oldest candidate in the field, polled 39.6 per cent first preference votes. He was elected on the fourth count....
...Michael Noonan, the new finance minister, held out some hope that the banks could raise a proportion of this capital themselves....
...Even Brian Lenihan, the current finance minister who has steadily maintained that senior bondholders should not be hit, said recently the government wanted a “substantial discount” on remaining unsecured...
...Michael Noonan, finance spokesman for the centre-right Fine Gael, called the announcement “a typical Fianna Fáil election stroke to avoid bad news in the last week of the election”....
...Michael Noonan, the Fine Gael finance spokesman, said Fianna Fáil were “like the Bourbons who have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing and they are destined to continue their mistakes in this their last...
...Brian Lenihan, the Fianna Fáil finance minister, said it had “to be the basis for any sensible proposals in the next general election”....
...Micheál Martin, foreign minister, has declared his hand, joining Brian Lenihan, finance minister, and Mary Hanafin, arts minister – all of whom have said they would be interested in becoming Fianna Fáil...
...Michael Heise, chief economist and head of corporate development, Allianz There is no real lodestar this year....
...Brian Lenihan, Ireland’s finance minister, sought permission late on Thursday from the Dublin High Court to make the new capital injection from the country’s National Pension Reserve Fund....
...Michael Noonan, finance spokesman for the opposition Fine Gael, said Anglo Irish Bank was “too big to save” and “we shouldn’t have gone there”....
...But Michael Vaknin, a senior fixed-income strategist at Goldman in London, said a repeat of the Greek debt turmoil in Ireland was very unlikely....
...” Michael Noonan, finance spokesman for Fine Gael, says people “want a change of government. It’s not that they even want a change in policy.”...
...One of the independents, Michael Lowry, a former minister with the main opposition Fine Gael party, said on Monday night he would support the budget....
...Michael Noonan, finance spokesman for the opposition Fine Gael party, has made clear he wants to see reductions in the interest rate charged on the EU element of the package....
...Mr Lenihan appears to have got the message....
...Michael Noonan, finance spokesman for Fine Gael, the largest opposition party, said any incoming government would accept the fiscal targets in the austerity package, but “not the ways and means” and would...
...Michael Noonan, Fine Gael finance spokesman, suggested the bail-out reports were true....
...However, Brian Lenihan, finance minister, was quoted in one Irish Sunday newspaper as saying such a rate was “not acceptable to me”....
...Michael Madden, actuarial partner at Mercer in Dublin, says the product will be no different from an employer sponsored plan, although he suggested the mandatory nature of the scheme “places a greater onus...
...Mr Lenihan, second to last in 2008, came bottom of this year’s rankings. Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker did not fare as well as might be expected....
...The departure of Mr Fingleton – or “Fingers” as he is colloquially known in Dublin – comes after pressure to restructure the management team from Brian Lenihan, the Irish minister for finance, who met the...
...Michael Heise, chief economist, Allianz European finance ministers were not to be envied over the past 12 months....
...Mr Lenihan insists there will be a “hardening of the approach to these borrowers”....
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