The last thing we need now is a populist budget
Budget 2017 has now been confirmed for October 11. This year’s budget will be the most unusual one for many years, given that it will basically have to be approved by the main opposition party, Fianna Fáil, in advance and it will be presented by the most fractured and unstable government since the early 1980s.
The danger is that Irish politics will revert to type and the offering we will get next month will be a populist one lacking in any real long-term strategic perspective.
