Time up for Coughlan and Harney

DEPUTY Leo Varadkar is right about Tánaiste Mary Coughlan. I too had an opportunity to attend a function she spoke at in London.

She did not understand the topic she was speaking about and read a prepared script in a monotone, disinterested voice. She then answered a few questions with the meaningless double-speak she is so fond of: we are where we are and going forward. Not an ounce of substance.

While the Taoiseach spends weeks navel-gazing about how best to balance the crony vested interests of his party, thousands more people lose their jobs, give up hope of finding one and thousands of small businesses cling on by their fingernails.