Cost Of Living Crisis

Cost of living package ‘last intervention’ ahead of autumn - Taoiseach

No new electricity credit, but welfare payments, extensions of tax cuts, and reform of TBESS all included in spring package

Coalition leaders Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tanaiste Micheal Martin, briefing media in the Courtyard of Government Buildings today. Picture: RollingNews.ie

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said today’s cost of living package will be “the last intervention” before the autumn, as the government announced measures that will add up to nearly €2 billion in total,

Speaking at government buildings today, Varadkar said the package had balanced getting money to those most in need, while ensuring the public finances were ready for any further intervention needed in the autumn.

Briefings over the weekend played down the potential size ...