They haven’t got Hobbs figured

SO the Coalition Cabinet are going to study the statistics used in the TV series Rip Off Republic fronted by Eddie Hobbs (Irish Examiner, September 8).

The clear intent is to ‘correct’ public perception rather than remedy the problems that the series highlighted.

The series has sparked a debate on public policy matters not seen in this State in such a prolonged and wide-ranging format since the Tallaght Strategy in the late 1980s.