Fianna Fáil-led government inheriting the post-Celtic-Tiger bust, defined by the blanket Irish-banking guarantee (29 Sep 2008) and the EU/IMF bailout (Nov 2010). Economic school: centre-right-clientelist FF with radical fiscal-emergency pivot. Signature actions: blanket state guarantee of Irish-domiciled banks' liabilities (~€440bn, 2.5x GDP), Anglo Irish Bank nationalisation (Jan 2009 — ultimate cost ~€30bn), NAMA National Asset Management Agency (Apr 2009) absorbing €74bn face-value land-and- development loans at €31.8bn; successive austerity budgets (Oct 2008 emergency budget, Apr 2009 supplementary budget, Dec 2009 budget, Dec 2010 budget — cumulatively ~€20bn / 12% GDP); public-sector pay cuts 5-15%; pension levy on public servants; widened PRSI/income-levy structure; VAT 21→21.5% then back to 21%. EU/IMF/ECB 'troika' Memorandum (Nov 28 2010, €85bn package); bank-sector recapitalisation €34bn under PCAR stress test. Left-right: centre-right, post-crisis consolidation. Popularity: FF collapsed from 41.6% (2007) to 17.4% (2011 general election — worst result since founding 1926); coalition dissolved Jan 2011. Coherence: moderate — guarantee was decisive but mis-priced the solvency problem underneath.
Policy-content fingerprint — how the framework codes this movement on its axes
Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.