Tánaiste & Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney and Minister of State for European Affairs, Helen McEntee updating the media this morning on legislation which will ‘protect ‘Ireland in the case of a no deal Brexit.
Government outlines details of no-deal #Brexit legislation @simoncoveney @HMcEntee https://t.co/SDfeKfYg8r
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 22, 2019
Which areas are covered in the #Brexit Omnibus Bill? | Read https://t.co/zbK2q7ImkV pic.twitter.com/HK1FioIqOp
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 22, 2019
This morning.
Government Buildings.
“A disorderly Brexit will be a lose, lose, lose for the UK, for Europe and for Ireland. We cannot offset all the damage it will do, but we are doing everything we can.”
Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney
Save yourselves.
*grabs iodine tablets*
Tánaiste: No-deal Brexit a ‘lose, lose, lose’ scenario (RTÉ)
Update:
The Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019 is now available on the #Oireachtas website here #Seeforyourself https://t.co/ye5vPvNwN7 pic.twitter.com/7MHNyvI5KN
— Oireachtas News (@OireachtasNews) February 22, 2019
if ever there was something the phrase “no sht sherlock” was invented for..
Constipated Holmes?
…back in the day we used to call this selling FUD – fear, uncertainty and doubt…
Do you think Brexit gives no reason for Fear, Uncertainty or Doubt ?
…there won’t be any brexit…the leave letter will be withdrawn and the cause of Irish unity will be set back for another generation…you’ll get another while out of your avatar MaryLou…
What a silly boy
Of course it’s a lose lose for Ireland when he have the likes of incompetent Coveney standing there representing us. My god, he is just so incapable, so lacking in common sense, so out of his depth, so inexperienced. He is an absolute embarrassment to this country.
When you line them all up beside each other. Coveney, Varadkar, Harris. Do they even have 10 years combined real world experience between them all?
^__^
“Let’s dig another big hole in the ground and throw another couple of billion into it.”
funny, he seems quite capable and full of common sense to me. Any examples to support why you think he is all that? I still wonder if we would’ve been better of if he won the leadership of FG. I’m not a FG supporter/blueshirt by the way.
that was meant to be a response to Ron.
Have to agree with that. Coveney seems like more capable at actual policy than Leo.
Leo loves showboating, as my aul doll would say.
Yep, I think Coveney would have made a better Taoiseach. He seems less concerned with PR and spin than Leo. He’s also more sincere.
lol. what have his achievements in office been that demonstrate his capability? didn’t he say he was going to solve homelessness? He is a master of optics and spin. utterly incapable and incompetent. Is it any wonder that Ireland is up faeces creek without a paddle when you have sillies on here salivating at the mouth over how better Coveney is then the others and that been given as a reason to vote for him. my silly voteometer is off the charts currently!!!!!!
Would you like another lemon to suck on there Ron or are you still on the last one?
In what way is running a ministry not ‘the real world’?
You’re going to give me some MBA shite now aren’t you?
We could put the local transition year student in charge of running the Ministry in order to give them ‘real world experience’. It would be reckless and the results would be detrimental. Pretty much the way we currently do it by appointing Ministers who are incompetent and have zero experience and capability
Tell you what. The English LOVE him. Any time he’s on radio or telly over there, all the comments state how impressed they are by him and how they wish they had calm and capable politicians like Coveney in the UK at the moment. Especially when he goes on to the Today programme with that gobdaw John Humphrys. Helen McEntee acquitted herself very well on the Today show as well.
FG have a lot of awful people at the top at the moment, but Coveney is by far the best of a bad bunch. He actually seems a) rather competent and b) not obsessed with spin. He’d be a much better leader than any of Varadkar, Harris, Murphy etc.
He lacks political savy as evidenced in the way out-manoeuvred him at he start of the leadership battle and he lacks guts in the way he abandoned his rule in dealing with the homelessness crisis.
Can’t wait for the chlorinated chicken smuggling..
& the chicken laundering
Didn’t that come from Holland?
that was chicken breasts injected with fluid which is illegal under EU law. Ron’s finger-lickin’ chlorinated chicken is produced within US laws
I preferred the Dutch stuff. They had a nicer mouth feel.
Ewwww.
Heh. Mouth feel. Right up there with moist and gusset. And, perhaps even more so, moist gusset.
Like that old poem “Ode to the mouthfeel of your moist gusset”
Classic
Yea I’m good thanks. Good collection of silly voters online today isn’t there?
Only the frozen Brazilian stuff
Upcoming bestseller “All about Robots” by Simon Coveney.
Foreword by Leo Varadkar & Helen MC Entee.
Clicking Google Ads for cents is the new economy.
All I’m worried about is if I can keep getting next day delivery from ASOS after it all goes pear shaped.
Bugger – i had forgotten about that aspect of it all. oh the humanity!
That loss will be countered by the reintroduction of the booze-cruise.
Which direction though, over and back or back and over?
What is Helen looking for “down there” in the twitter pic?
Chicken fillet popped out.
Rust.
The “outline[…] details of the no deal”: it says so in the caption, dumdum.
Interesting that this is being widely reported in the British media while zero about their own hard Brexit plans- assuming they have any of course.
The UK has been doing quite well in information updates.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/777373/Partnership_pack_Feb_2019.pdf
The plans we have heard about from our own government is that today they are going to release an omnibus of legislation. One month before brexit.
Need we be reminded of FGs record as regards rushing legislation? Hogan, Daffy?
Quick review of this planned legislative blitzkrieg – seems to anticipate several bilateral agreements between the UK and Ireland, which I thought Simon said wouldn’t happen, “it’ll be UK/EU or nothing”, and some of the proposals look legally iffy, like the extradition proposals. And they look costly, how much?
I’m sure they must have been working intensively on these proposals so the concerns are probably unfounded, but this is Simon Coveney ladies and gentlemen, and he has plenty of previous poor form.
A lot of the bill seems dependent on a transition period. The deals will expire at that point by the looks of it. The miscellaneous bit at the end is the most telling in that all references to a member state will include UK until end of transition period. But that’s still dependent on a deal before Brexit or the previous agreement being honoured.
In theory there can be bilateral agreements on some technicalities during this transition period. That’s why the bill has some very specific details that might be an issue in some arrangements and it isn’t enough to include UK in definition of “Member State”. In fairness the various departments have done a decent job of reviewing a lot of legislation to find the bits and pieces that need to be tied up.
There’s a few agreements (like Common Travel Area) that predate EU so shouldn’t need a new agreement.
One that’s way too late in the day is the insurance issue. UK Financial Companies have been warned for over a year (iirc) that they need to establish a European base to continue to offer insurance and financial services. Most have done so. It seems a redundant bit of legislation unless the Central Bank is way behind on processing the approvals. But to only be doing this 30 days before Brexit seems a bit late, again unless there’s been a hold up in approving and they need more time.
Are we gonna be ok?
That’s the eternal question, Pee Pee.
The answer is no, though. We’re all going to die.
ah for crying out loud
Yup and if they don’t bury you out of love, they’ll bury you out of stink.
Found it!
https://merrionstreet.ie/en/News-Room/News/Brexit_Omnibus_Bill.pdf
(74 pages).
More miserable than the Eastenders Omnibus.
Laters…