Speaking at a meeting of the social partners at Dublin Castle last Thursday, Ireland's Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern suggested that Ireland's tax-cutting era has ended.
According to reports in the national media, Mr Ahern told the delegates that the government's priorities for the near future would be health and education, and stressed that strong economic growth will be necessary in order to provide additional resources in those areas.
Also attending the meeting was Finance Minister, Brian Cowen, who pledged to take as many low income workers out of the tax net as possible, and warned that an increasingly elderly population was pushing up healthcare costs.
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