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‘Tough but necessary’ housing measures, O’Neil says
It’s a long road for the government trying to sell its ambitious budget, and housing minister Clare O’Neil has acknowledged that not everyone will be happy about the tax changes.
What they show is that lots of people are supportive of what the government is doing. And then some people don’t support what the government’s doing. That is what you’d expect to see in a budget that does some tough but necessary things for the country.
In politics, you don’t do the popular thing. You do the right thing.
