Who funded the big names and small achievements?

YOUR editorial (September 16) gave unqualified approval to what you called an “inflammatory, radical or even subversive” speech in relation to the public service made by Minister of State for Trade and Commerce, John McGuinness, recently.

Whatever epithet your editorial wants to apply to the speech, it had one glaring characteristic — and that was its hypocrisy.

Firstly, Mr McGuinness is a member of a government party which has presided over the allocation of billions of taxpayers’ money for most of the last 20 years. Yet he made the extraordinary claim that the public service is “above political control”.