Lenihan rejects demand to extend 5-year recovery plan for Irish public finances; Trade union leader David Begg gets his figures wrong
Oct 2nd, 2009 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan on Thursday termed as “not feasible” a proposal by trade union leader David Begg that the Government should extend the 5-year recovery plan for the public finances by several more years to minimise the impact of cuts on workers. However, Begg used wrong public debt figures to support his case.