‘We are still four months out’: McGrath seeks to play down Coalition row over budget and tax breaks

“It is only at that point that we will have clarity on how much the overall budget package is going to be and then the debate about the individual measures will happen in the weeks and months after that. We are still four months out from the budget,” he said at Munster Technological University in Cork.

The decision by the three Fine Gael Ministers of State to float the idea in the media led to anger in Fianna Fáil which in turn prompted former Fine Gael minister Michael Creed to tell his parliamentary party meeting that his party “shouldn’t take lectures from those who crashed the economy”. “I think if we get into responding to individual comments, some of them made in private parliamentary party meetings that may or may not be accurately quoted, I don’t think it really serves any useful purpose,” he said.

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