Dublin braced for Budget Day protest
NewsPoint) –Dublin is braced for protest as Michael Noonan and Brendan Howlin are set to publicly announce the €3.5 billion of spending cuts and tax increases of Budget 2013 with the annual Autumn StatementAlthough today only marks the beginning of the process of negotiating budget measures for the forthcoming year, the speeches made by the ministers, and the expected announces of continued austerity measures.An anti-austerity protest is expected to take place outside the Dáil (lower chamber of the Irish parliament) at around 4pm.
Similar budget announcements across Europe have been met with large demonstrations, seeing thousands take to the streets in Athens, Madrid and Lisbon especially.