I think one of the main things that we need to address if we are to start recovering is our cost.
We are a scandalously expensive place in terms of costs and wages etc. These were allowed to rocket in the boom times when no-one was bothered, but now its a rock around our necks. The wages have to come down, end of. But it will be so difficult trying to persuade the unions about this. I think the next 4 or 5 budgets will have to address wages, and by natural process the prices will have to fall as well.
Although we are all feeling negative now, you really have to hope things will get better. I do worry that if corporation tax is raised we mind see a gradual exodus of the huge companies, which would be disastrous for our economy.
Irish people used to have so much spirit and fight in them, but you just feel now that most people are broken and find it hard to see any point in trying to get our of this mess.