Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

Of course there will be a debate on the budget. There is no big issue about this. The Cabinet will meet in the morning and fix the date for the budget. I indicated that it will be the first week of April. The Minister for Finance will bring the proposal before the Cabinet in the normal way. It will be adopted by the Cabinet and notification will take place accordingly. We will obviously have a debate after the budget is announced.

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