Tomorrow’s budget will likely see a subtle evolution of the Irish state. This is an emergency budget that doesn’t know what kind of emergency it needs to cope with. Rather than a roar, it will most likely be a mumble. This is not a bad thing. This is a budget framed against extreme amounts of uncertainty, extreme amounts of macroeconomic risk. Minister Paschal Donohoe must plan his budget in as prudent a manner as possible. It is not all doom and gloom. This budget is, for the first time in ten years, a budget with the resources to do something…

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