Louise Byrne
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598 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Louise Byrne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he said at this stage, it would be foolish to rule anything out, that we need to kind of keep our powder dry and see what's happening.
But he wasn't going to rule anything in or out, which is a little bit of a departure from what we have seen, because a lot of it, in fairness, is dependent on the time of the year that we're in.
And Simon Harris said this again yesterday, an energy crisis in the summertime, like right now, where the days are a little bit brighter, the evenings are a
get better weather, thankfully.
It's very different from if we were facing this scenario in the wintertime.
And at the moment, we just don't know if that's going to be the case.
So whether or not we get to a position where we need the energy credits is probably a question for another three or four months time, but certainly seem to be back on the table in a way that they weren't in the last couple of weeks.
I think it will have to because the situation, and we saw this with the crisis in Ukraine when measures were introduced, you had the excise cuts like we have now, etc.
They took a couple of years to actually wind back down.
So
The question is it's €750 million to date.
How much higher is that going to get?
1TD and Fianna Fáil told me they wouldn't be surprised if we end up spending €2 billion on these measures over the course between now and the end of the year.
So it's going to have to have an impact on the budget.
And the Taoiseach said that on the day that this €505 million package was announced that, of course, everything has an impact.
So what the impact of that will be is another question.
Simon Harris saying yesterday again in Drogheda that he is determined that there's going to be a personal tax package in budget 2027, that the best way to help people with inflation is by letting them keep some of their money.
Not that you ever get to keep a huge amount of money back after these tax cuts, but it's better than nothing, I think is kind of what he was saying.
And whether that will still be possible if these measures have to be extended and the manner in which they're wound down, I think we're going to have to wait and see.
Yeah, and I think it kind of jars with people to a certain extent, Clare, and I think you saw that.
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