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Emergency Budget in September , whats hot ??

Sponge Bob · 2008-08-05 23:01:45

The deterioration in the public finances is now so great that Brian ( and Brian) are hoping that the public willl step in to help them with the hard decisions that have to be made. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0805/breaking65.htm…

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06-08-2008 12:01am

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Sponge Bob

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The deterioration in the public finances is now so great that Brian ( and Brian) are hoping that the public willl step in to help them with the hard decisions that have to be made.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0805/breaking65.htm

http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/government-reports-budget-deficit-of-67-billion-1447395.html

Note that July alone was down €770m on the month and that with a strong uptick in new car sales which will not be repeated .

There shall therefore be a mini budget in late September ....probably with the Dáil roused from its slumbers a tad early ....but not too early of course.

This thread is for those of you who want to help Brian ( and Brian) stay under the ECB borrowing limit of 3% of GDP for 2008 , thats between €5bn and €6bn in total and do remember that they appear to have borrowed all of it already .

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