If the Government is powerless to prevent pay increases at the State-owned Anglo Irish Bank, what hope has it of ensuring that the credit policies of the other banks concentrate on helping SMEs rather than bolstering capital bases to benefit owners and bondholders?
Letter published in the Irish Times on 26th March 2010.
Your correspondent Henry Roberts (7th April) makes a good point but has mixed up apples and oranges. The €15.3 billion quoted for California refers to its expected budget deficit for 2010-11 i.e. excess of expenditure over income. The good news is that the €79.3 billion quoted for Ireland relates to our total national debt rather than the budgeted deficit. However, the bad news is that this national debt is about to double thanks to Nama, bank bale outs and ongoing budget deficits.
Letter published in the Irish Times on 8th April 2010.
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