The ‘jobs for boys’ attitude must go

The government’s finance policies are very strange, to say the least, to any sane mind.

Take for example their intentions to cut the health service budget and in the next breath vow to spend €124m on upgrading broadband.

Another misconceived idea is their new rates for houses when one considers that nearly 40% of householders have not paid the property tax and 27% of mortgage holders are in financial difficulties and unable to meet their mortgage payments. Yet the Government suggests that home owners pay rates on the size of their homes. Will 60% of home owners pay while 40% refuse to pay rates?