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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Particularly during the fuel protests and, you know, the workers and the farmers who were out protesting were, you know, saying that we're such a rich country and we're saying that we have money, but yet we're not feeling it.
the excise cuts that are introduced you know I was driving past a petrol station there on my way to work and the petrol prices are beginning to even creep back up compared to what they were yesterday or the day before so people aren't yeah people and I'm because I'm looking at it because I actually need to get petrol and I'm deciding whether to bite the bullet or hope they come back down and people aren't feeling it and I think you know that's a crazy thing to say when we're spending 750 million euro on this package is that people aren't feeling it and
Simon Harris and Jack Chambers can say, well, we're going to have economic growth.
Unless that actually translates to people, it's a very, very hard pill to swallow for the general public.
He does.
And I mean, speaking to Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil backbenchers last week, in fairness as well, they think that then Finance Minister Pascal Donoghue made a mistake by not including a tax package for workers in the budget that's just gone.
They think, you know, that that should have been done, that it was a programme for government commitment, that it should have been implemented.
So there's political pressure there as well, probably for coming from Fine Gael's core base more than Fianna Fáil's.
But
There is going to be pressure building there.
But I remember sitting down with Simon Harris for an interview for the Irish Examiner before Christmas.
And what he said at the time was, I would like to see a tax package in Budget 2027 barring a shock.
Now, I interviewed him again a couple of weeks ago and I said, is the war in the Middle East, is that the shock you were talking about?
And he said, not at the moment.
At the moment, the plan is to still plough ahead.
And it was still the plan yesterday.
But the best laid plans can change.
So I think we'll be keeping a watching eye on this between now and October.
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