Susan Hayes Culleton
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3,424 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3d ago
Susan Hayes Culleton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because one might think that actually this budget should just do nothing.
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OK, but he highlights this in the letter as well and that he said that relative to current government projections that maintaining spending growth at a lower rate would deliver larger headline budget surpluses, which I would say you've been, you have certainly been arguing for a long time.
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But then he said that he feels that it would be consistent with putting one third of the estimated windfall corporation taxes being saved between 28 and 2030 in comparison to the plan for the government of putting in 20%.
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The thing about that,
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though, Seamus, is I could bring in anybody in here into studio and they'll tell me that actually, while the economy might be looking good in the figures, people can't get a house, infrastructure is falling down.
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We're all obviously seeing that lovely weather that we have at the moment.
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But what are we going to do to prepare for the climate related immigration that we're going to see in the future?
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And of course, there's a big question over the sustainability of the future state pension.
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All of these are big existential questions that in five or six years, I may well be asking you about.
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Well, why didn't we think about them back then?
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Well, at least it's an unusually positive position to be in, Seamus.
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And as you say, and I quote you from earlier on, these are problems of success.
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And it's important as well that we always reflect on the fact that these are good things that have happened over the past couple of years and it's how we put them to best use.
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Thank you very much for joining me there, Seamus Coffey, who is the chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council.
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This is Susan A. Culleton here on Taking Stock on News Talk.
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After the break, we talk about how the Middle East economy has changed forever.
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Welcome back to Taking Stock.
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I'm Susan Hayes-Cullerton.
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Now for my trivia this week.
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As I told you last week, I'm leaning right into spending all of July at home.
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