Irish budget deficit growing beyond initial assessment - minister
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's budget deficit for 2020 is, as expected, growing considerably beyond an initial assessment made last month, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said on Friday.Donohoe's department forecast the deficit would hit 23 billion euros, or 7.4% of GDP, based on spending commitments made at the time, but could rise to 25 to 30 billion depending on the speed of the recovery and scale of government intervention."I said on the basis of decisions that I expected we would be making..