Punish those guilty of economic treason

THE evisceration of the Fianna Fáil Party is simply not enough.

In April 2010, Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore in the Dáil accused Brian Cowen of having committed economic treason in relation to the September 30 bank guarantee.

The Green Party later on in that year attempted to have economic treason legally defined and introduced into the Constitution. The proposed bill unsurprisingly got nowhere.

The government of the 31st Dáil must draft such a bill, making it retrospective to 1994.

Considering the fiscal, social, and very personal financial holocaust that 14 years of mostly Bertie Ahern-lead government has wreaked upon this nation, such a proposition can hardly be said to be unreasonable.

Let us make a good law and use it. Let us punish the guilty, and let us use the law of economic treason to do so.

Pierce Martin

Celbridge

Co Kildare