Howlin hits out at former IMF chief's debt comments

Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin has hit out at the IMF's former mission chief for Ireland, who suggested we could have had a better deal on our debt burden.

Ashoka Mody yesterday told Newstalk that Ireland could have negotiated a write-down as well as a "slower pace of austerity", but ended up following the demands of Berlin and Brussels.