(from left: Michael McGrath Sean Fleming and Dara Calleary TD launching Fianna Fail’s alternative budget at the Alexander Hotel this morning)
You decide.
An adjustment of €2.4bn to deliver a budget deficit no greater than 5.0% in 2014
The split of the adjustment for 2014 should be approximately 50 / 50 between new tax and expenditure measures
The burden of adjustment should be levied in a progressive manner, unlike the current government’s two budgets to date
Education, Disability and Mental Health services should be protected and not be subject to any further cuts
A suite of “innovative policies” to encourage and promote private enterprise…
Hmm.
“We need to ensure that domestic entrepreneurs are incentivised with the same priority given to foreign direct investment.
“We are bringing forward measures which will underpin this commitment, including a lower rate of capital gains tax for entrepreneurs, tax relief for individuals making loan capital investments to SMEs and an expansion of the JobAssist scheme.”
Fianna Fail Spokesperson on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Dara Calleary TD
A Fairer Future For Ireland (Fianna Fail)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
