Peter Burke likes to talk about “moving the dial”.  In fact, over the course of his lengthy post-budget interview with The Currency, Burke, the minister for enterprise, trade and employment, uses the phrase, or a variant of it, on six occasions. The breathtaking largesse of Budget 2025 might have been largely funded by the equally breathtaking largesse of a small cohort of multinationals. Still, Burke is insistent that he now wants to “move the dial”, and firmly pivot the focus of government attention to the indigenous economy. Yet the Restaurants Association of Ireland has described this week’s decisions as “a…

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