The economist who drafted the Fine Gael taxation policy prior to the election argues that the budget deficit will have to be eliminated by means other than more indirect taxes in the 1982 budget. By Brendan Dowling

By unanimous agreement, unemployment is now the country's most daunting problem. Yet there are no reliable figures on the number of people out of work. Brendan Dowling unravels the bewildering statistical information and describes the dimension of the problem.