Over the next three years the Government is going to have a cumulative budget surplus of a projected €65 billion - the biggest budget surplus in our history.
But how should the vast pot of money be used?
To help solve the housing crisis? On money-in-the pocket cost-of-living measures? Or generations-long visionary one-off infrastructure schemes?
Will the spending strategy be long term and structural – or short term and popular with an eye on the next general election?
‘Grace’ final report finds evidence of serious neglect but not sexual or emotional abuse
Who is Grace and why was a report on her care needed?
Tax discs to be abolished for Irish motorists as number plate technology takes over
Measures in 2025 climate plan will be at centre of social and economic development, Government says
And is the surplus a chance to come to grips with our carbon dependency in the face of the climate crisis?
Ballooning corporate tax receipts are the foundations on which this vast surplus is built – but there is retrenchment in the global tech sector.
Cliff Taylor teases out the opportunities such a windfall offers, why it is happening and what the Government should do. Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Suzanne Brennan and Declan Conlon.
