Budget 2017: Heavy dollop of pragmatism saw three-parent budget succeed

JUST weeks after the first baby was born using a “three-parent” technique in Mexico we’ve managed the almost similarly amazing feat of the three-parent budget here.

If you’d put forward this possibility even 12 months ago it would have appeared almost as fanciful. However, it has happened, and with the minimum amount of fuss.

It may have been borne out of necessity, and a self-serving desire on the parts of all involved not to have a general election, but the important point is that it happened. Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, and the Independents managed to put together a spending plan that will see us through the next year.