Quick entry to report that the 17-strong grouping of the great and the good of Irish business, Ireland First, has made available its programme to help the country back on its feet. The programme has apparently already been handed over to the new government, and the understanding had been that the programme would not have been generally published until the grouping had discussed its contents with the government. Despite that it is now available.
With respect to NAMA, the suggestions aren’t all that contentious but are very light on detail – why, how, what resources needed, when – that type of thing. But I extract here the few words the grouping has to say on NAMA (remember that the group includes NAMA Top 10 developer Michael O’Flynn and One51 CEO, Philip Lynch who is in the wars at present with a court case dealing with a development on land in Waterford)
NAMA Wine Lake 
[…] Namawinelake, here’s the up-to-now secret “Blueprint for Ireland’s Recovery” that has […]
The usual suspects.
A few good points but I don’t buy it.
This manifesto comes from the most part via the post 1987 brigade of extreme IMF policies pursued by this squad of economic hit man to hide the IMFs blushes through the use of copious amounts of shamrocks.
A part of me hopes this monetory ecosystem will crash before these vultures decapitalise further our physical and spiritual capital.
Vultures require warm updrafts to remain aloft and something tells me that a quarter of a century or more of degradation will change this green savannah into a cold hard tundra.
Ireland First! sounds like ‘First we take Ireland, then we take Berlin…’
It reads more like a banal effort at a bloodless right wing coup with all the usual reheated ideas – tax breaks for business, unelected (business) men in Govt, privatisation, cut the public service, etc, etc.
What a waste of space…..!