On The Hard Shoulder today, the first episode of ‘Henry’s Front Bench’ saw Alan Shatter discuss Gerry Hutch, a 'new energy' and begonias.
reporter Henry McKean introduced the first episode of ‘Henry’s Front Bench’, where he sits down with election candidates up and down the country on park benches for a chat.
“I'm really wondering, if he does run, will he be the first ever election candidate to call for less Gardaí on the streets instead of more?”Mr Shatter said he is going back into politics because “public service” is in his “DNA”.“And there are some things in fairness, that the outgoing Government have done well, like the economy is now motoring, unemployment is down.
“There's always a really stupid slogan that's produced by my former party at election time, and it happened when I was in the party and some PR genius would come up with something, and it always fell flat,” he said. As Ireland’s only Jewish candidate, Mr Shatter said people in his constituency have been “very supportive” and “very welcoming” on the doors.The Independent candidate said he has “no expectations” as to what’s going to happen in this General Election.“I think in this constituency I'll ultimately be competing with Sinn Fein for first preference votes and possibly the third or fourth seat.
“Proposals now produced by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the context of the election or promises they're making, fall substantially short of what's needed and of no credibility, because some of what they're now saying they could have implemented five or six weeks ago in the budget.” Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence Alan Shatter speaking to journalists in the Ashling Hotel in Dublin.“I know telling the truth about difficult issues in the past has got me into trouble,” he said.
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