Ahern looking at the ‘bigger picture’

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday claimed that this week’s Budget was part of a cycle that would realise the immense potential of Ireland that generations of patriots hoped for and dreamed of but never lived to see.

In his speech to the Dáil on Budget 2007 the Taoiseach contended that the Government had met its commitments to workers, enterprise, pensioners and family.

He also described it as an “entirely responsible one”, designed not to overheat the economy and to give the State a substantial safety margin, if the current favourable economic picture were to disimprove.