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Sat 10 Oct 2008Recipe for chaos as too many cuts spoil the Budget
Raising revenue by cuts to the PRSI exemption would have been fairer and less controversial, writes Garret Fitzgerald
BECAUSE I know from experience how easy it is for politicians locked up in government together to lose their sensitivity to popular opinion, I am less surprised than most people that the Government misjudged the public mood with regard to the ending of universal free access for patients to general practitioners.
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