In both cases, as senior sources readily confirmed, the intended recipient of the messages was not so much the public, but their fellow members of the Cabinet, with whom budget wrangling is already under way. Next week sees the beginning of the budget bilateral meetings, where Donohoe and his senior officials will meet with the line Ministers and their teams to agree settlements for the coming year.
That will inevitably pose internal difficulties within the Government, whose two main parties must figure out how to be Coalition partners and, simultaneously, electoral rivals. Fianna Fáilers were outraged when Leo Varadkarwith a suggestion that the European Commission might consider softening its position on the nitrates directive which has so enraged farmers.
For Sinn Féin, the challenge between now and the election is to close the deal with all those new supporters it has attracted in the past three years. It will need to translate the broad appeal of its offer of “change” to the rather more humdrum expression of implementable policies.
The smaller parties, meanwhile, must fight for their share of the limelight, the Greens seeking to demonstrate their continuing relevance and purpose in power, the smaller left-wing parties wondering if they can avoid being steamrollered by Sinn Féin. It will be helter-skelter stuff, for sure. The Dáil gong goes just before 2pm today.
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