Opposition hits out at Budget of ‘empty promises’

THE Opposition last night savaged Brian Cowen’s Budget as a package of bribes and empty promises waiting to be broken.

Fine Gael’s shadow finance minister Richard Bruton laid into the Coalition’s attempts to “buy votes” by pledging things they could not deliver.

He told the Dáil: “This Budget marks the first step in this Government’s attempt to buy the next election and it is going to do it with taxpayers’ own money. But people have wised up.”