Lenihan hit the defenceless and missed bankers

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan’s skydiving budget was not the key to success in attempting to solve Ireland’s economic future – rather the reverse.

What should have been incorporated in his plan was a progressive stimulus package that would help create employment, encourage new industry and investment and boost existing enterprise. No such support was offered.

Instead he settled on a course of action that will demoralise and demotivate the young and the unemployed, as well as those whose efforts we depend on to keep the economy mobile.