Fine Gael will announce Fianna Fáil budget with a splash of Independent Alliance

Today we will witness the county’s first opposition budget.

Fine Gael will announce Fianna Fáil budget with a splash of Independent Alliance

Despite exaggerated protestations and insisting they have no ownership of the Budget 2017, today’s package divided up 2:1 between increased expenditure and tax reductions, has Fianna Fáil written all over it.

In fact, many of the measures were first hammered out during negotiations on the confidence and supply agreement drawn up out after the election.

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