One phrase repeats in my mind as I re-read the government’s just-released Economic Recovery Plan. It’s a little German motif robbed, as it happens, from a Roman Emperor: Eile mit Weile. Make haste, slowly. Balance urgency and diligence. Advance always with deliberation.  The plan extends key income supports and tax warehousing. Some supports extend into 2022. This was well flagged but means those workers who do not feel any benefit from the wave of savings about to break on the Irish economy will be protected.  It will also go some way to repairing the balance sheets of key parts of…

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