Richard Bruton, finance spokesman for the opposition Fine Gael party, called the budget "jobless and joyless".
Within the coalition government a large group of the Fine Gael party members, the party with the most seats, have vowed to oppose any liberalizing of abortion, even if the European panel recommends it.
Only this week parliamentary representatives from Meath, including former premier John Bruton, head of the Fine Gael opposition party, met Trinity College officials to discuss the possible move.
Some lawmakers from the main coalition party Fine Gael are likely to vote against the bill, however.
The Irish government has been under pressure from the main opposition party Fine Gael over the effectiveness of the investigation into the car bombing of Omagh, County Tyrone on 15 August 1998.
Earlier this year, for instance, two hackers breached and defaced the website of Irish political party Fine Gael, proclaiming it the work of Anonymous when most supporters had no idea what was going on.
Following the reports, Ireland's opposition party Fine Gael tabled a private members' motion calling on the government to outline what action had been taken, after new anti-terrorist legislation came into force in the wake of the bombing.
Recently a rogue member of the group, "pwnsauce, " attacked the site of Ireland's main opposition party, Fine Gael, defacing the site with Anonymous' logo and an angry message, and disclosing contact details for 2, 000 of its visitors.
The main parties are Fianna Fail, who won the most seats in the last election in 2007, Fine Gael, Labour, Sinn Fein and the Green Party.
After a poor performance in the Irish General Election last February, the party was replaced by the current coalition government of Fine Gael and Labour.
Fine Gael is the largest partner in the Irish coalition government but several of the party's politicians have expressed unease about the proposal to legislate for the credible threat of suicide as a grounds for a pregnancy termination.
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