Budget was about buying election, not fairness for all

There was something for everyone in the audience but is it enough? There is no doubt that this was a budget with an election in mind. On first glance the budget was clearly one that Gay Byrne’s Late Late Show would have been proud of.

There was ‘something for everyone in the audience’, although slightly skewed to those more likely to vote.

The only issue from the Fine Gael and Labour perspective will be the timing for that initial feel-good factor when the money starts entering wage packets, and will there be enough to get those floating and wavering votes back in the Coalition ballot box?