Failure to address carbon tax in budget fails to future-proof anything

I kept coming back to the image of two old fellas sitting on bar stools chatting away about future-proofing the economy without noticing that the fourth wall of the pub had already fallen over the cliff.

The rest of the pub was sure to follow sending them rocketing over the cliff unless they looked up and took urgent action. But they didn’t. They didn’t even increase the derisory carbon tax in the budget.

Despite my natural cynicism, the Government parties and Fianna Fáil have managed to leave me dumbfounded.