Budget should be an open book

Eoghan Murphy says Budget Day should be the most boring day in the year, writes political editor Paul O’Brien.

EOGHAN Murphy wants Budget Day to be a non-event.

“Budget Day should be the most boring day in the year,” the Fine Gael TD for Dublin South East says. He envisages a process where there would be “no surprises” on the day. Instead, all possible policy options would have been debated in full and in public by an Oireachtas committee for months beforehand.