Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The Taoiseach promised a jobs budget to stimulate economic development for early next month. The Taoiseach has since said this will not be a budget in the normal sense of the word and the process has been relegated to a revenue-neutral jobs initiative. As we will now be presented with a revenue-neutral jobs initiative, will the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, present the statement to the House? We have been told this will not be a normal budget. Will it contain tax increases that will require the Minister for Finance to present the statement?

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