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The group met this week after the Department of Climate and Environment and Energy confirmed it was not proceeding with a plan to require café and takeaway customers to pay a 20 cent levy on each disposable cup they used.

The latte levy was designed to encourage people to bring their own cups to reduce paper waste, plastic pollution and littering.

And a fifth of homes are selling for more than 20% above asking price.

So if your asking price is 500,000, it'll eventually sell for 600,000.

Karen Holmes, one of the biggest house builders in the land, says that the concessions in the budget announced only two days ago, including the VAT rate cut for new apartments, could cut the price by up to 80,000 euros per unit.

Do you buy that?

How many homes do you think will get built this year?

But the optimistic stuff of 40,000 is also well wide of the mark.

Wearing your chief economist hat for a moment, what did you make of the so-called Big Mac budget?

Thanks, Conall, for coming in.

That's Conall McQuillan there from Bank of Ireland and the compiler of a myhome.ie survey.

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

So we now know what the government will spend our money on next year.

Some groups will be happy, but most ordinary taxpayers won't be any better off, despite the government sitting on a surplus of 10 billion euro.

The budget was, though, targeted at companies, at entrepreneurs, at investors.

And as such, right up the breakfast business street.

Joining us to break down what it means for consumers and companies large and small is Duno Daugherty, Workforce Tax Partner with PwC.

And Harry Harrison is also a tax partner here with PwC.

Good morning to you both.