Government’s grand plan for our future turns to dust in the schools

I MET a man recently who has spent most of his career working on major capital projects. He’s been involved in building bridges, motorways, third-level colleges and housing estates. And he’s involved on the financial side of things, so he knows a fair bit about money and how it should be spent.

We were chatting about the recession — it’s completely taken over even from the miserable weather as the main topic of conversation. I remarked that at least he was in a position where he could point to various bits and pieces of development and claim them as his legacy from the Celtic Tiger.

“There’s only going to be one legacy from the Celtic Tiger,” he told me, “and that’s a very large fleet of second-hand BMWs.”