It was inevitable that this general election campaign would turn into a promise-contest. The parties’ campaigns were never going to ignore the spending made possible by the Department of Finance’s estimate that the next government will have an additional €11 billion to spend over the next five years.
That said, the re-emergence of auction politics in the opening phase of the campaign, particularly on the pension age issue, shows how chronic uncertainty...
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