FG: Huge gamble with no evidence strategy is right

FINE Gael has lashed the Government for asking taxpayers to bear an enormous burden without any evidence to show why its strategy was right.

Fine Gael finance spokesman Richard Bruton said the Government should have been under obligation to prove why the opposition’s banking proposals could not be implemented.

He said Finance Minister Brian Lenihan was expecting taxpayers to trust the judgment of a Government without enough evidence or justifiable track record.