Lenihan failing to instil confidence

IVAN Yates tells us that he has to admire the “self-assured style and growing confidence” of the minister for finance in relation to NAMA (October 1).

At the same time Mr Yates assures us that NAMA adds up to “a sweetheart bank bailout and an unacceptable deal for the taxpayer”.

The minister and his colleagues were very self-assured and had loads of confidence during the last 12 years in which they were in government.