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22/11/2011
Child Benefit Facing Budget Cut
The forthcoming budget is in focus today as the Dáil Cabinet begins three successive days of meetings on fiscal matters.
Child benefit may be cut by as much as €10 a month as it tries to make up the €3.8 billion 'adjustment'.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the Cabinet has not decided on the details of the budget yet but will do so over the next few days.
"The preparation of any budget, particularly if you have to take €3.8 billion out of the economy is always sensitive, is always difficult and is always unpalatable," the told the Irish Times.
But, the Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton yesterday pledged to oppose any cuts to child benefits in accordance with the Labour Party's pre-election promise to protect them while child benefit cuts remained "very much on the table".
(BMcC/GK)
Child benefit may be cut by as much as €10 a month as it tries to make up the €3.8 billion 'adjustment'.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the Cabinet has not decided on the details of the budget yet but will do so over the next few days.
"The preparation of any budget, particularly if you have to take €3.8 billion out of the economy is always sensitive, is always difficult and is always unpalatable," the told the Irish Times.
But, the Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton yesterday pledged to oppose any cuts to child benefits in accordance with the Labour Party's pre-election promise to protect them while child benefit cuts remained "very much on the table".
(BMcC/GK)
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