Taoiseach: Showtime spending is over, hello stability

Enda Kenny has promised Fine Gael will outline a fully costed five-year economic plan for his party’s election campaign and pledged to reduce unemployment to 6%.

The Taoiseach also signalled that his party would make radical moves to take people off welfare payments if returned to power.

Addressing the annual Ibec president’s dinner last night, Mr Kenny — in a clear dig at Fianna Fáil — flagged the Coalition’s final budget next month as goodbye ‘showtime’ — hello stability’.