Richard Bruton TD | Knows What Must Be Done

About Me

Hello, Thanks for clicking my new website. Many people have suffered huge losses due to bad government – lost their jobs, lost their savings, lost their homes. We must now make the future of our families secure again. To do that, we need to transform the way we do things in Ireland. We are pledged [...]

Getting Ireland Back to Work

The top priority for a new Fine Gael government is to get people back to work and stop forced emigration. Young people have been the main victims of the economic crisis. Two out of every three people pushed out of work are under the age of 30. We are losing our youth to emigration. Fine [...]

New Politics

New Politics New politics can put the interest of the citizen back at the centre of government. • Abolish severance payments for Ministers • Abolish the entitlement of Ministers to state cars • Cap app political pensions, only payable at 65 • Cut the pay of Taoiseach and Ministers • Require all expenses to be [...]

Faircare: Making Our Health Services Work

Fair Care – Making our Health Services Work Even with resources scarce, we can still focus on fairness. The acid test is how we help families cope with crises in their lives. FairCare is our fundamental reorganisation of the Irish health system based on three fundamental principles: Treat all patients equally: ending the distinction between [...]

Smaller, Smarter Government

Smaller, Smarter Government We need a smaller government that is effective and fair. Talented people in our public service are trapped in a system that fails them. We must break up the rigid structures and harness that talent. It is those who depend on public services who are the victims of waste. • Revolutionise the [...]

Fix the Public Finances

Fix the Public Finances We must cut our cloth to what taxpayers can afford. Piling on more and more new taxes won’t work. By cutting waste and inefficiency we can protect frontline services. • Focus on world-class efficiency in spending so income taxes don’t rise. • Streamline administration – eliminate and streamline up to 145 [...]

My Blog: NAMA – a shotgun wedding?

Posted on 29 July 2009

‘Marry in haste and repent at leisure’. This is the risk of the Government’s courtship with the banks through NAMA. Panic today, and misplaced optimism that tomorrow will look after itself, should not guide this massive step. Continue Reading

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My Blog: McCarthy – the start of a journey, not a final destination

Posted on 20 July 2009

The McCarthy Report once again underlines the appalling failure of the government to live within its means and to deliver public services efficiently. It exposes the lazy habits of creating an agency for every problem, of paying out benchmarking without reform, of buying out problems instead of confronting them. The government has created a spending machine that requires €400m a week of borrowed money to keep it afloat. Continue Reading

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My Blog: Local Elections, Dublin Results and Lessons Learned

Posted on 09 July 2009

Local Election:

Now that the dust has settled on the Local Election results what lessons can be learned from them?

In the run in to the Local Elections, pollsters were predicting that Labour would beat Fianna Fail into 3rd place. In the end Labour polled 15% – only three quarters of the vote that was predicted for them, while Fianna Fail polled 25%, – 40% more than was predicted. Fianna Fail demonstrated greater resilience than some expected. Continue Reading