#Budget14: Labour gets a fillip as Noonan gambles on a rising economic tide…
Well the mood music at the Fine Gael’s National Conference was pretty upbeat. They reckoned that offering free medical cards for the under fives was going to frame the post budget debate, and they weren’t wrong. Most striking aspect of the opposition’s problem (mostly FF’s) was in trying to land a single major blow on the intricate tracework of the Michael and Brendan show yesterday. They reduced the target somewhat by restructuring repayments on the deficit less painful. Medical cards …