{"id":50107,"date":"2025-09-29T06:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50107\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:40:13","slug":"richard-curran-government-must-not-add-fuel-to-overheating-fire-of-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50107\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Curran: Government must not add fuel to overheating fire of the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"All eyes will be on Paschal Donohoe come budget day. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/84559581-3515-453f-b9be-9c12aa57bb61.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">All eyes will be on Paschal Donohoe come budget day. Photo: Collins<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">No government ever got re-elected by promising to take the heat out of the economy. Yet, that is increasingly what economic think tanks want this Government to do. Next month\u2019s budget is expected to inject \u20ac9.4bn into the economy through higher spending and tax cuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This is at a time when Ibec says Irish GDP will grow by 6pc this year and a further 4.6pc next year. Even stripping out the multinational effect, Ibec sees domestic demand rising by 2.8pc this year and 2.4pc next year. Not exactly an economy in need of billions more in current spending and tax cuts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All eyes will be on Paschal Donohoe come budget day. Photo: Collins No government ever got re-elected by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5168,5244,72,969,113,25744,61,60,13808,774,5914],"class_list":{"0":"post-50107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-budget-2026","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-esri","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-jack-chambers","17":"tag-paschal-donohoe","18":"tag-richard-curran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}