Let’s hope we can get to a better place — and that it’s in Europe

IT’S time, finally, for some honesty.

We have to be given a better reason for painful budget cuts than “This, unfortunately, is the fallout from the bank guarantee”.

That was the best that Taoiseach Enda Kenny could do when he was questioned with passion by Micheál Martin on the burning issue of educational places for school-leavers with special needs during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil last week.