We deserve better public sector accountability

There is a very healthy debate going on in Ireland and indeed around the developed world about the appropriateness of austerity and the impact it is having on different economies.

In Ireland at the end of 2013 respective ministers of finance will have taken over €27bn out of the Irish economy in the relatively short period of time since 2008.

By any standards this is a lot of money to extract from an economy that has experienced one of the biggest economic crashes in modern history.