Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I am glad to hear the Taoiseach say that. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is in agreement with this anyway. There should be no problem, so we will see how it goes.

Why is there such mystery about the budget date? It is a week since the Government announced that there would be a second budget for 2009.

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