A case for solidarity: how supporting certain sectors to stay shut will allow society to reopen
The continuing affordability of borrowing means we can pay the hospitality sector to stay closed, safeguarding jobs and businesses and allowing schools to open, as Alan Barrett of ESRI has suggested
News of a €19 billion hole in the state’s finances will perhaps never again be met as sanguinely as it was last Tuesday afternoon when Paschal Donohoe unveiled the latest round of exchequer figures.
A deficit of such scale is a reflection of the serious financial trauma inflicted on the country as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the degree to which the government has stepped up to support the incomes of...
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