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Updated 6.30pm
FINANCE MINISTER MICHAEL Noonan and Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Brendan Howlin will appear on Newstalk Breakfast before they head to RTÉ Radio 1 as part of their post-Budget day of interviews.
The two ministers currently have no plans to do a similar event with Pat Kenny on Newstalk in the wake of the veteran broadcaster’s departure to the commercial station.
But it has been confirmed that they will be speaking to Ivan Yates and Chris Donoghue on Newstalk’s Breakfast morning show first that very morning. After that, they will head to RTÉ for the post-Budget phone-in on Sean O’Rourke’s Radio 1 show.
There had been some speculation that Kenny’s departure to Newstalk would mean the ministers would opt to appear there on the day after the Budget announcement.
But a source pointed out that RTÉ’s prominence as the national broadcaster meant it was always going to be chosen over any other station.
Noonan will speak to George Hook on Newstalk on Budget day itself as well as Mary Wilson on RTÉ’s Drivetime. Howlin is also due to speak on Drivetime after both ministers make their speeches next Tuesday.
Both Noonan and Howlin will also be on the Last Word with Matt Cooper on Today FM on Budget day.
The post-Budget phone-in on RTÉ will allow the ministers to answer questions from the public on how the Budget affects them and has been a tradition for many years.
The programme begins at 10am next Wednesday on RTÉ Radio 1. Callers are being invited to email questions to todaysor@rte.ie from next Tuesday.
- Additional reporting Aoife Barry.
First posted 3.30pm
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I cannot understand why this project has not been started already. Surly a loan can be sought from the European investment bank. This will be a money making entity once it is operational so it will be paid back over time
@Leitrim303: very few public transport systems make a profit so I doubt it would make much money
@J M Raw: m50 toll is profit on profit with more profit on top.
@Tom Shine: M50 is a road. Public transport systems are buses, trams, metro etc.
@J M Raw: the dart runs at a profit. Some regional services don’t. Anyway, it’s an investment into getting workers to work which has other benefits for the economy.
Alternate headline..”Dublin office building rejected by An Board Pleanala because it would interfere with Dart Underground station which won’t be built because it was rejected funding by Dublin City Council”..All that’s missing is some Benny Hill music.
@Dj: ha ha is that actually true.
@Dj: Benny hill music if not all ready Dublin City Council theme tune it should be.
By the time this Metro is built most of us will be transported by Hearse!
Maltese company ???
@RJ.Fallon: Looks like a shell set up in May 2016. No websites and address is a building with euphmistically entitled businesses such as PDK investments and LT Textile Holding Limited. Considering no publication in Ireland is willing to name the owners of the company Id say it’s probably safe to say it’s “he who cannot be named”.. and I don’t mean Voldemort…
@John Ryan: well then it is a nice report.
@John Ryan: I take it you mean the scruffy little elf who looks after Harry Potter?
@Patrick J. O’Rourke: I have no comment to make as I really can’t afford a High Court case right now (or ever). ;-)
@Patrick J. O’Rourke: I could be entirely worng of course but it looks like likely.
@John Ryan: Thanks for that info, it puts a perspective on it.
Ok. Will we ever get underground metro system in this country?
@The Girl:
No.
@The Girl: I’d say our debt repayments over next few years will make it tough to fund.
@Lurfic: Don’t you mean all the give away budgets will make it hard to fund?
@Tony Stack: Give away?!…I think you mean give the back the people their hard earned cash which you so happened to thieve in the first instance!
So blocked by a project that they arent working on and never will…seems legit
The maltese company should bring this to the high court. DART underground is still a figment of our imaginations. There’s plenty of other land and routes it could take. All development can’t be stopped just in case we do something 30 years from now. Ridiculous.
@Fred Jonsen: The Maltese company is also a figment of someone’s imagination. It exist only on paper.
Need a few brown envelopes lads
The state should just buy the site at current market value …
Someone come and take this place over again! Please!
Brown envelopes must have been a little light.
Maltese Elf must receive compo from the Taxpayers.. here we go again..
Make it part of the building (underground station hub)…
Government have been buying property along this planned underground railroad for years, the wording used was neutralized ground, Next they will be looking to store all the human sludge/faeces from Dublin next to the airport…..
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