The battle to convert a giveaway budget to electoral success

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Minister for Finance Jack Chambers TD and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe TD speaking to the media in the Government Press Center, outlining the budget 2025. Photo: Sam Boal/Collins PhotoThe full details of Budget 2025 are still emerging but it is now clear that much of the government’s 2.2 billion euro spending package was leaked in advance of Ministers Jack Chambers and Paschal Donohoe taking to the floor yesterday.

Political editor, Pat Leahy, attributes that change to the political need for competing parties to ‘own’ their particular wins and publicise them before the general election is called.

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