Time to finish the budgetary job

It was good that the government engineered a deal on the promissory note which will save about €1 billion from the budget arithmetic next year.

It was good that the government engineered a deal on the promissory note which will save about €1 billion from the budget arithmetic next sure. It is not so good that, so far, ministers appear to have spent this sum a few times over in hinting at various options for 2014. The reality is that, as the ESRI said in its medium-term outlook, there are such uncertainties ahead that the best course would ...