Politics
Budget 2024: How the parties plan to handle ‘the politics of the surpluses’
Government ministers know Ireland ‘expects’ a big-spending budget in October, and various lobby groups are making their cases – but all the while, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council is sounding warnings not to spend too much
Dublin Castle, the centre of British rule in Ireland for over 700 years, is going to have another concentration of power tomorrow.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Eamon Ryan, the Minister for the Environment will all be arriving there for the National Economic Dialogue to outline their thoughts on what should be in the October budget.
It is part of the annual budgetary process, showing the willingness of the powerful (the ministers and ...