NEXT Tuesday’s emergency budget won’t be a “silver bullet” to solve the economic crisis, Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said.

DONEGAL-BORN Gerry Robinson, who was a key speaker at the annual Irish Management Institute conference, accused government departments in Britain of being obsessed with strategy, but incapable of making decisions to implement it.

Aer Lingus will soon get a clear future strategy with guaranteed funding for the first time instead of the “never-ending uncertainty” and crisis management of the past, Minister for Transport Martin Cullen said today.