Inside Politics: Broadband rollout is latest extravagant project unveiled ahead of next election
Watt was, I think, seeking to speak truth to power. He is both clever and courageous. But that doesn’t mean that he is right about everything. Ministers are entitled to make different decisions. The broadband plan looks seriously misconstrued to me on grounds of risk-sharing, cost, and prospective take-up but I am not sure that the claim it represents an unprecedented risk to the exchequer entirely stacks up.
For all the week’s bombast on one side and ululations on the other, though, it is hard to see this as a political game-changer in either direction. Interestingly, I am given to understand that, in their inner sancta sanctorum, both the Fine Gael and the Fianna Fáil hierarchies were not displeased with the week’s events.Fine Gael believes that rural Ireland will get the message that the Government cares about it and wants to put its money where its mouth is.
It will be difficult for Fine Gael to present itself as the champions of fiscal prudence in a general election campaign
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