Home-grown entrepreneurs key to recovery

Encouraging home-grown entrepreneurs is key to the next stage of this country’s recovery, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

The National Competitiveness Council functions as a national nagging mammy, finger-wagging at her basically feckless bachelor son, Paddy, as he starts to sink back into his bad old ways. The council knows that, deep down, Paddy/ Ireland is a lazy lad who likes lie-ins, fried breakfasts, and pulling a fast one on his employer, or customers. It is only when things get really bad, and disaster threatens, that he pulls his socks up and gets the lead out.

Last week, the council was back ticking us off.