Budget giveaway promises absent as Ireland's economic model faces unprecedented threat

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Donald Trump is in Saudi Arabia - his photo adorns our front page - where he was promoting billions of dollars in commercial and trade deals, including $140 billion in defence contracts for the US arms industry for the Saudi military.
51% : However, the hands of the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure are likely to be strengthened by the threatening international situation, even if a feared decline in corporation tax revenues does not arrive in the coming months.
45% : Fianna Fáil was so upset by this uncollegiate behaviour that Micheál Martin used his ardfheis in April of last year to get in ahead and promise a series of increased tax credits and welfare increases in the pre-election budget.
36% : Speaking to an audience of Saudi royalty and business elites, US billionaires and the head of Fifa - many of the most dreadful people in the world, in other words - Trump also offered Iran a deal.
36% : He reiterated that Iran "cannot have a nuclear weapon". Trump also said he wanted to stop the war in Ukraine, but sounded hopeful rather than confident about the talks in Istanbul tomorrow.
21% : That means Trump's not going.

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