To use corporate job titles, is Enda Kenny a COO or a CEO? While there is no doubt that Kenny has done a super job in regrouping and energising the party since he took over as leader the burning question is can he take them any further? Is he the Operations Officer, who fixed the party when it was broke and repositioned it as an viable alternative to Fianna Fail again, but can’t drive home the huge advantage they should be seeking from the electorate. Fianna Fail are on the floor and hanging on for dear life and yet Fine Gael can’t seem to knock them out.  One of the lingering questions from the 2007 Election was what if it was Richard  Bruton would went head to head with Ahern in the televised debate prior to the election.  Huge numbers watched that debate and there is no doubt Ahern had a decisive victory here.  Would this have been different if Bruton had been Ahern’s opponent?

In the business world we see people who are superb number 2’s but cannot make the step to being a decisive number 1. Kenny assumed the mantle of leadership and has worked tirelessly to bring Fine Gael back to power but does he lack the credibility, the vision and the charisma/personality to take control of Dail and country and lead our recovery. The opinion polls don’t seem to think so and it is the opnion of this author that the Chief Operations Officer title defines Enda Kenny as opposed to the Chief Executive Officer. We will have to wait and see what the party think?

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It’s June, the sun is shining but as temperatures rise so too are the numbers on the live register. We know that there is always a lag between economic recovery and the hiring of workers back into the marketplace but these figures continue to be a source of grave concern. On the ground Talent Partners are seeing more opportunities for recruitment in the market compared to 12 months ago and we expect this momentum to continue in the weeks and months ahead. Key stats from the CSO today include;

(i) The number of people signing on to the Live Register rose by 6,600 in May

(ii) The unemployment rate now stands at 13.7%.

(iii) May saw an increase in the number of individuals signing on the live register (1,650 people per week) compared to a weekly fall on 100 people per week in April.

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