Howlin says Government is "not pursuing an austerity strategy"

Brendan Howlin has insisted that the Government is not pursuing an austerity strategy, despite the claims by critics. In an op-ed in this morning's Irish Times, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has said that the state needs to deal with "catastrophic deficit".

Howlin was responding to a letter in last week's Irish Times (here) by leading economiststhat claimed that austerity-driven policies would lead to further unemployment as the economy contradicted.

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