The agreement of the new Irish government’s programme is prudent and realistic. It should be acceptable to the European Union and the International Monetary Fund which are jointly providing funding for the Irish economy. It accepts the tough budget targets agreed for 2011 and 2012. While it delays, in principle, the date to bring the deficit down to 3 per cent of gross domestic product by one year to 2015, it will only be in two years that the extension will finally be decided.
組成愛爾蘭新一屆聯合政府的兩黨就該國經濟復甦計劃達成的協議是審慎而切合實際的。正聯手向愛爾蘭經濟注資的歐盟(EU)和國際貨幣基金組織(IMF),應該能夠認可這項協議。該協議接受了各方爲愛爾蘭約定的今明兩年的嚴格預算目標。雖然原則上它讓愛爾蘭能夠延後一年(即到2015年)把赤字佔國內生產總值(GDP)的比例削減至3%,但實際上要到兩年後才能最終決定是否延後。