Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. I welcome his brevity and clarity. I felt that last year the September budget was a positive precedent. September is a month of renewal. A lot of people are planning ahead and the earlier budget helped people to plan for the winter and the months ahead. It should be considered and would be a positive development if we established September as the regular month for the budget. I remember way back coming home from school and there was no "Dempsey's Den" on television because the budget was on, and it was January. That is going back a long time ago now. Then we moved it to October. I certainly feel it would have been a very healthy practice to maintain a September budget and ask if it could be continued and that we do it again on the last Tuesday in September.

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