Sir, – Having been a “budget watcher” for many years, the event no longer has any surprise element and little entertainment value. The drip-feeding of budgetary measures and spending eventually provides all the information we need, sometimes months in advance.
Is there any chance that our newish Minister for Finance might refrain from any further hints and announcements so that we might get some old-fashioned spontaneous reaction from the Opposition, the media and public? – Yours, etc,
BRIAN MURPHY,
Dublin 6W.