The implementation of a financial transaction tax has had a disastrous effect on the countries that have implemented it, according to Financial Services Ireland.

An ex-boyfriend of PR executive Kate Fitzgerald told an inquest yesterday that in the weeks before her death she felt her employers were trying to “show her the door”.

Micheal Noonan, the finance minister, is not in favour of introducing a financial transaction tax as the Department of Finance says Ireland already has one — stamp duty.

GREEN financial services has the potential to create at least 7,000 jobs within five years, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said yesterday.