Heard the interview this morning. A lot of nothing really. To listen to her you would think the banking crisis started in February and she only found out about it last week. It is past time for action.

Think you mean the economy is f****d Joan

I wonder if Joan could be more specific in relation to which sector of the economy has a demand for labour. NO would be the answer to that. This government feels that they can spout off vague figures and idle threats and that we the gullable maluble electorate won’t bother to check if its true or not. We have independent economists telling us we are knackered and that the only way to move on is to have a debt write down similar to Norway and Japan and let the ECB pick up the tab. So taking the debt from the people who can’t afford it allowing them to start spending again which would jump start the economy.

Pontificating buffoon…I have heard her on the radio recently and the bewildered nonsense she comes out with is extraordinary!

Hard to believe shes defending the governments record on jobs. The 2.75 billion paid to unguaranteed bondholders this year could have took 80-100,000 people off the dole and gave our domestic economy a major boot up the rear end. This would have made a second bailout or access to external funds far less likely. Instead the government chose to make wealthy people even wealthier.

Party of Connolly Joan?

Burton told Newstalk Breakfast that the economy is in “transition” yeah from a dead body to rotting corpse!, yet the TD’s, Senators and other quango and semi state fat cats like the parasites and maggots they are, are still gorging themselves on ridiculous Celtic tiger salaries, outrageous and over generous pensions not to mention unvouched expenses and payoff’s. Transition is right, the country is being strangled by austerity and crippled by state funded banks who won’t lend to small businesses and are more interested in looking after their own bonuses and salaries.
I don’t what country she was talking about but it’s certainly not the Ireland i recognise!

Those 4 thousand people have probably emigrated for cultural reasons!

Go to YouTube and watch her in action with Vincent Browne! All lies! What a dragon!!

Jaysus, does she ever take a picture where she doesn’t look bet with a shovel

Comatose is the word Joan – be
honest girl !

Of all of the ministers in this joke of a government..She is by far the worst for spewing out spin and talking absolute shite…
This f……..g country is in bleedin’ freefall and this joke of a politician comes on to tell us we’re in ‘transition’..
Does she and the rest of that gang really think that the people believe that garbage?

wow she must have got her hands on some of that cannabis seized in kilkenny, how else can you explain her nonsensical ramblings

it amazes me how politicians so quickly abandon their beliefs and party principals once they get into government. its like all BS was just to get the pension or they receive a brain transplant on entering government.

I’m waiting for the punch line Joan.

What I love the most about the thread above is the fact that the majority of the contributors above voted this shower ie labour and fg into government!!.. They are as bad as ff just packaged a wee bit differently!!

The reason that so many people on here are insensed by her comments is that it is quite obvious she has not got a single original thought of her own.

All she does is take quotes from the EU book of auld flannel and regurgitate them as her own opinion.

And I quote…The Labour TD said that there was a skills shortage for some of the new foreign companies setting up in Ireland and that it was part of her job to “help the people that are relying on social welfare to move them into what the Troika calls ‘activation”.

or

“What we have to do is make our education systems and all our systems across government responsive,”

What does that mean? Nothing…its just a string of words pulled together as a soundbite.

Love to know what these negative commentators have ever done for the Country. Simple to criticise isn’t it.

I met Joan and shes a very nice person comes from Dublin as well, I cant fault her to be honest. Up the Dubs.