Irish Examiner view: Taxpayers foot the bill for boom builds

The response of Ireland Inc to a long list of construction scandals leaves a lot to be desired

The mica scandal which let to continued protests at Leinster House is but one of a litany of problems which will cost all of us billions. File picture: Stephen Collins

The US poet Nikki Giovanni once said: “Mistakes are a fact of life, but it is the response to error that counts.”

That being the case, the response of Ireland Inc to a variety of construction scandals leaves a lot to be desired, particularly as we do not appear to have learnt from any of them and nobody other than the Irish taxpayer is left to pick up the
bill for decades of malfeasance and woeful absence of responsibility.