You do one useful thing, and you get attacked for it. Who’d be a politician?
It’s time to sharply incentivise domestic economic activity. How did FF and FG respond to this challenge in yesterday’s budget?
There will come a day when Governments do not have fourteen billion euros to play with. And when that day comes, we will realise just how badly we have spent our cash
The poster boy for “centrist dad” politics finds himself embroiled in an inevitable crisis.
The minute a hard choice had to be made, who was the first to get the chop? Not the bureaucracy. Not the NGOs. Not the massive overspending on projects.
“A sophisticated system.”
Patterns and runes.
History repeating itself.
Asked if he would take responsibility for future cuts if the economy suffers after the Government ignored IFAC’s advice, Tánaiste Simon Harris said: “How the economy does is absolutely the responsibility of the Government.”
The experts nobody wants to listen to.
Finance Minister responds to criticism from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council that the Government was set to spend an ‘inappropriate’ amount of money at the upcoming Budget.
Budget.