Union leaders ‘as culpable as bankers’ for crisis, says Glen Dimplex chief

TRADE unions are more culpable than bankers in this country for what has happened over the last two decades, according to one of the country’s top businessmen.

Chief executive of Glen Dimplex Sean O’Driscoll said “the Jack O’Connors, the David Beggs are as culpable as any banker in this country, in fact more culpable for what has happened... over the last two decades”.

“The social partners, unelected, who walked in and out of Government buildings, who just love to jump in front of a microphone, they are as culpable as anybody else,” he said.