ESRI should ask: Why is everything in this country wrong?

QUOTE of the week has to go to economist John Fitzgerald who admitted when launching the new ESRI report that: “The one thing that is sure about this latest forecast is that it is wrong.”

At least someone in a position of authority has decided not to treat the rest of us as stupid, even if the move does go even further to undermine any residual confidence that anyone in charge of this country knows what they are actually doing.

After initially putting the frighteners on pensioners, the Government’s dysfunctional spin machine decided to try and bore everybody out of the pre-budget debate with numbers — along with a side helping of distraction via the spectacular own goal and political humiliation of managing to lose the once slam-dunk Seanad vote.