Posts Tagged government

AIB & BoI to be Nationalised?

Given that we’re now talking about €8bn to recapitalise the banks, wouldn’t that shift the balance so far to the State as an owner (compared to the existing shareholders) that it’s effective nationalisation?  If we as a country are going to go that far, will the Government decide to go the whole hog and nationalise [...]

February 7th, 2009 at 15:54 in Politics (Ireland) | tags: , , , , , , | 1 Comment

More missing Government laptops

Parliamentary Questions from Ruairi Quinn TD have shown that there’s been a significant increase this year in the number of laptops and other data devices stolen or missing from Government hands.  Back in January, he put down a series of Dáil questions (PQs) which showed that more than 100 devices had gone missing between 2002 [...]

October 1st, 2008 at 17:08 in Politics (Ireland), Security | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments