In the coming months, as the budgetary horsetrading and political manoeuvring intensify, Danny McCoy believes that the Government will once again increase the target for the amount of money it intends to inject into the economy next year.  Total spending is due to rise by 6.9 per cent in 2025, once again breaching the Government’s own National Spending Rule, which is supposed to limit overall annual spending increases to five per cent.  By the time Ministers Donohoe and Chambers stand before the Dáil in early October to deliver Budget 2025, McCoy, believes the number will have edged closer to 7.5…

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