FF attacks Kenny over plan for NAMA

EDUCATION Minister Batt O’Keeffe will today turn the NAMA row personal by claiming Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has a “hapless grasp” of economic issues and is an embarrassment to his own party.

It comes as Finance Minister Brian Lenihan prepares to face a grilling over the plan at an Oireachtas committee hearing on Monday.

Mr O’Keeffe will deliver the comments at an Ogra Fianna Fáil conference in Cork. In his prepared script, he defends NAMA and claims Fine Gael’s proposed alternative is “deluded”.