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THE GOVERNMENT HAS received some good news ahead of the announcement of Budget 2016 next month.
Its plans to increase the budget by between €1.2 billion and €1.5 billion have been ruled to be ‘economically prudent’ by the the Fiscal Advisory Council.
In its pre-budget statement, the body has stated that the expansion in spending should be feasible as long as the government fully comply with new budget rules.
In the past the council has rarely given the government an easy time when it comes to assessing their spending plans.
Earlier this year the watchdog accused the government of being too optimistic about economic growth over the next five years in its Spring Statement.
Warnings
The council has advised that extra spending should not increase beyond the upper €1.5 billion limit.
Its new position is based on more recent data from the Central Statistics Office.
It has advised that extra revenue produced by the economy growing should go towards debt reduction and insulation from potential international shocks.
Budget next month
The government’s budgetary framework was earlier laid out in the Spring Economic Statement and projected a structural budget deficit 0.3% of GDP by next year.
The budget will be announced on 13 October and so far we know that the extra spending will be split evenly between tax cuts and an increase in spending on public services and welfare supports.
Minister for finance Michael Noonan said in July that there will be a cut of at least 1% to the Universal Social Charge on salaries between €17,000 and €70,000.
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When they changed to reduced sugar it was the end….. Lilt has never been the same.
@Shane McGrath: Exactly. I’ve been cutting down on soft drinks because I’m allergic to aspartame. It used to be my only reason for ordering regular instead of diet drinks.
And the other artificial sweeteners aren’t doing any favours to the taste either.
If they had reduced the sugar, and left it at that, I wouldn’t mind, but trying to compensate by using artificial sweeteners is wrong on so many levels.
@Shane McGrath: Blame the sugar tax for ruining lifes small pleasures.
If you don’t have Lilt and Cidona as your Christmas softdrinks are you even Irish????
@Fi Wyse: or Tanora if you’re from Cork
@Sara McS: Tanora and a chicken fillet roll. Gift nyom
Rockshandy rules this isle!… Victory!
@thesaltyurchin: The Mas with the flat 7up might not agree with you…..
@Fi Wyse: or the boiled red lemonade. A legendary cure-all! :)
@Fi Wyse:
Who on earth drinks this rubbish?
Artificial sweeteners are the no. 1 causse of cancer.
Can’t say you weren’t warned.
With the cost of living these days lilt might be the closest we get to the tropics.
More than the product itself, I liked the original advertising campaign. Everytime I drank it, or even now when I just think of it, I think of the West Indies and that ‘totally tropical taste’.
I’m sure Fanta will reconsider their decision on the results of this poll, so get voting everyone!
After a sweaty hot day in the bog bringing home trailers of turf, there’s nothing like going to the fridge and opening and downing a can of lilt……..
Who
The
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Cares
Don’t drink it, but I’m outraged anyway. Is there a protest arranged or maybe an online petition? Anyone know the number for Joe Duffy?
The Aldi version is very nice!
@Gareth Miskelly: no it’s not it’s mank
Fanta was created by Coca Cola for sale in the Nazi market during WWII. That was the company’s way of getting around federal legislation banning trade with Germany. Germany was the only production base for Fanta until the parent company started global sales. It’s a small world, really..
Yes, it’s totally tropical
Just YUCK
Listing the ingredients for fun :)
Carbonated Water, Fruit Juices from Concentrate 5% (Pineapple, Grapefruit), Sugar, Citric Acid, Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Sweeteners (Acesulfame K, Aspartame, Sodium Saccharin), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Flavourings, Stabilisers (Acacia Gum, Guar Gum, Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate, Glycerol Esters of Wood Rosins), Colour (Carotenes). Contains a Source of Phenylalanine.
Total Carbohydrates 4.6g
Total Sugars 4.6g
Fair enough, I’ll be trying the Fanta version.
Never liked the stuff but I have a mate that’s addicted to it. He’ll be freaking out
Always dreamed of being “ The Lilt Man “ – not the same on courtown beach though :-(
Shrugs shoulders and walks away…
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