Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The budget projected the economy will grow by 2% next year. The OECD published growth projections for the eurozone yesterday, which indicated that the Irish economy will grow by 1.9% in 2014. This figure is very close to our budgetary figure and gives us a reasonable degree of optimism that our figures will come in on target.

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