JIM MORRISSEY,
Madam, - Our Minister for Finance, Mr McCreevy, built a career out of lecturing the public and other politicians about the perilous state of our public finances in the 1970s and 1980s. Now the wheel has turned the full circle and the Minister is being subjected to a bit of his own treatment .
After the filleting of his reputation in Garret FitzGerald's excellent column last Saturday, the question must be: is the Minister now high on the list of the worst Ministers for Finance in the State's history?
It beggars belief that any Minister who was handed a booming economy by his predecessor but now presides over the wreckage of the public finances can still maintain his position. - Yours, etc.,
JIM MORRISSEY, Laurel Park, Ballinlough, Cork.