Lack of leadership is the real issue

YOU quote Finance Minister Brian Lenihan (October 8) as saying “expenses reform won’t solve the financial crisis” and that we need to focus on “the real issues” facing the country.

I have been so busy trying to keep my small company alive that I have hardly had time to feel real anger with what is or isn’t going on.

However, Mr Lenihan’s comments have made me livid. The “real issue” facing this country is a total lack of leadership or even the basic understanding of the fact that all leadership is about example and there is little or none of that emanating from either house of the Oireachtas with the outstanding exception of Senator Feargal Quinn.