John Moran: Politicians must write the recovery plan, not bankers

The politicians who write the recovery plan will determine how history is written

Restaurants on Cork's Princes Street. John Moran says you cannot stimulate business spending by offering loans that businesses are too weak to pay back. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

Small and local businesses await the July Stimulus hoping this time they have been listened to. To save our economy, we need to save jobs, especially in parishes a long way from Kildare Street where the plan is being written and to save jobs we need to save businesses.

Our economy is a patchwork quilt of FDI, large exporting companies and SMEs. So all sectors need to recover.