All Posts Tagged With: "April Budget"

This weeks Budget did not address the need to improve the economy’s competitiveness by at least 20%. The burden on the productive and private sectors of dealing with the country’s serious financial deficit has increased to a disproportionate and unfair level. Unless the Government now takes action on the cost of doing business in this [...]

IFA President Padraig Walshe, in accepting an invitation from the Taoiseach to return to talks with Government, said that family farms incomes are under severe pressure and any further cuts to vital farm schemes in the upcoming Budget are simply not on as they would cause irreparable damage to an export-led sector that can play [...]