This may all seem a little removed from your immediate preoccupation, which is the job market. But I think you will agree that an overall economic pick-up in Ireland offers the best  BIS Review 15/2010  1  route to improved job prospects here for yourselves, and that pick-up will depend on a speedy resolution of the budgetary and banking problems.
Those of you who have the ambition and capacity to start on a career of entrepreneurship have an even more direct interest in ensuring that the banks are functioning providers of credit.