Housing
John Walsh: The government won’t do it, but approved housing bodies should be scrapped
These state bodies are so unreliable that developers can’t get funding on the back of a contract with one, and in any case low to middle-income earners can’t get a mortgage
About a decade ago, the Royal Bank of Scotland was in the middle of a media storm amid an unrelenting public backlash.
The failure to upgrade its software had caused a breakdown in its payments system. Hundreds of thousands of customers were affected, including in Ireland through its Ulster Bank network.
The board hired a heavyweight crisis management expert to deal with the daily negative press coverage. In the first meeting between the consultant and ...
