We have every reason to doubt Croker claims

It is nothing less than amazing that Brendan Howlin should be surprised that people have difficulty in accepting the claims made by the Government and the unions regarding savings made on the Croke Park agreement. He is either extremely naive, thinks we are all idiots or that we have the memory span of a goldfish.

Broken pre-election promises, we’ve had many from this government. Assurances that this, that or the other will be dealt with have fallen by the wayside. Also let’s not forget the various favourable interpretations of EU commitments to help reduce our debt, only to vanish even before the ink was dry.

Hard talk about hard action is simply that — hard talk. Or is it a case of all talk and no action? That unfortunately sums up this Government’s performance so far. There are no reasons whatsoever why Mr Howlin should be surprised that we take his and the Government’s and indeed all other vested interests’ assurances and commitments with anything other than a large dollop of salt. We are all Doubting Thomases and we have good reasons to be.