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The European Commissioner says the €1 billion savings should be used to eliminate Ireland’s deficit as soon as possible.
Michael Noonan thinks it would make more sense not to use the promissory note proceeds to ease the next Budget.
The European Commission, Council and Parliament have reached a deal on introducing rules requiring early submissions of Budgets.
The Transport Minister says that talk that the government has €1 billion more to play with in the next Budget “gave me bad memories of Charlie McCreevy”.
However, the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny says it’s too early to predict the promissory note impact on Budget 2014.
Olli Rehn has written to EU ministers indicating an openness to delaying austerity measures on a case-by-case basis.
Enda Kenny says it’s only six weeks into the year – and too early to predict the promissory note impact on Budget 2014.
The Department of Finance has put together these figures to illustrate the benefit to Budgets 2014 and 2015.
The EU wanted the general government deficit to be under 8.6 per cent of GDP, but it could be under even 8 per cent.
Just five days after Budget 2013, there have already been calls to move next year’s Budget to a different month. What do you think – good idea? Bad idea?
Budget 2013 is less than a week old but already thoughts are turning to Budget 2014 and the possibility it could be held earlier than December next year.
Brendan Howlin says bringing Ireland into line with European moves could see Budgets in October, with two months of debate.
The Minister of State will meet with other EU finance ministers to discus the bloc’s budget for the coming year.
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