Skips and new cars are a sign that economic recovery’s taking root

IF I WERE to say that Finance Minister Michael Noonan is off with his statistics on economic recovery, he would come after me and give me a black eye to match the one he’s sporting.

So I will concede that the economic evidence of recovery, cited by himself and Richard Bruton, may be valid.

But I beg leave to suggest that there are physical indicators of the end of the recession and these may be worth scrutiny.