Pat Leahy interviews Ministers Paschal Donohoe and Jack Chambers who offer some insight into the Apple windfall and the restaurant VAT debate.
Mary Lou McDonald’s hope of pulling off another Lazarus act is not great. Sinn Féin’s confidence is rattled They say budgets are all about choices. Well, yes. But there are choices and there are choices.
So as we digest the contents of Tuesday’s package and work out what it means for us individually and collectively, it’s worth briefly remembering how we got from austerity budgets to giveaways: it took hard decisions, long-term choices, willingness to do things that were – temporarily at least – unpopular.
Budgets, after all, are as much about politics as they are about economics. Sometimes they’re more about politics than economics.