Budget measures to control inflation
Callanan asked what the July budget had done to control inflation and what further action was planned. Bruton defended the budget as necessary given the inadequacy of the previous January budget.
It has been pointed out that inflation is the curse of the country. What attempt did the Minister's budget make in July to control inflation? What attempt does he intend to make to control inflation if he has learned a lesson from the committee's report?
Comment on this
We have gone into the reasons for the July budget on numerous occasions. It has been clearly accepted by the public at large that that budget was inevitable because of the total inadequacy of the January budget for which the Deputy's party were responsible. I repeated on so many occasions the need for taking the difficult choices taken in July that there is no need whatever to go back on it now.