Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is a bad budget, which comes on top of many other bad budgets. The context is not a single day in October when two Ministers announced a regressive budget but the austerity budgets which preceded it. The effects of budgets are not always immediately clear and emerge only when the detail of the various measures is published. The Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputies Noonan and Howlin, respectively, spoke in the Chamber for nearly one and a half hours on budget day.

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