Next week’s budget will put around €1,000 back in the average workers pocket, the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has claimed.
Next week’s budget will put around €1,000 back in the average worker's pocket, the Taoiseach has claimed.
“One thing I want to do is reward work, and make sure that people keep money in their pockets,” he said.The Taoiseach also told the paper that cost-of-living measures included in the package would kick in ‘before and after Christmas’ – but suggested they would not be as extensive as the €600 energy credits announced last year.
“You need to make a choice and the choice for us is making childcare affordable, delivering on housing, delivering on education, delivering on services.”
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