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CABINET MINISTERS ARE due to meet this morning ahead of next Tuesday’s Budget announcement with the final numbers being determined in the coming days.
Budget 2014 is likely to see a €2.5 billion fiscal adjustment announced but exact details of where the axe will fall on spending and where new or extra taxes will be levied are still to be finalised.
Ministers will meet in government buildings this morning and will hold further discussions on Sunday evening after Fine Gael’s national conference, getting under way today, concludes.
Discussions are likely to focus on the budget for the Department of Health with officials trying to determine what overruns it faces due to unforeseen demand over the past year.
Last week Health Minister James Reilly quoted Cicero in declaring that he was hopeful there would not be another overrun in the health budget this year.
While Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Brendan Howlin said last Sunday that so far the Department is on target with its spending this year.
Sunday is likely to be the final day for decisions. Last year it was reported that Labour ministers at one stage walked out of discussions but while it has not been as tense this year, fraught negotiations cannot be ruled.
The Budget will be announced next Tuesday at 2.30pm in the Dáil chamber with Finance Minister Michael Noonan outlining the taxation measures before Howlin details the spending cuts.
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Evict FFG. Or nothing will change. We need a radical new direction away from rightwing capitalist landlordism that no one can afford.
We don’t need tenants paying for a landlord’s multiple mortgages and lifestyle.
Rent pressure zone cap is been blatantly ignored,
And blatantly uninforced.
Just ask Daft.ie for statics.
Maybe it is too late to sort out housing in Ireland?
@Joe McNamara: It’s never too late. The best time to plant a tree is ten years ago, the second best is NOW
@Joe McNamara: the housing…the health care system…the energy prices..the price of a 2nd hand car…it’s over man ..they don’t care… we’ve lost! The rich stay rich…the poor stay poor and now the middle class are been marginalised into poverty!
Whoever votes for Aontu is a backwards no teeth Trump supporter
Goody. I mean they are working so well.
Ireland is a rent pressure zone, asset owners have the wealth!
Ireland has so much to offer…. However, years of squandered opportunities, selfishness and continued ignorance and stupidity has nurtured a sub-society of people unwilling to work and dependent on the state. How can we change this?
Workers Party
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