Budget 2023

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Michael McGrath and Paschal Donohoe, the ministers in charge of the budget. Donohoe said the country was facing a different type of challenge after the pandemic

Budget 2023 involved a total package of €11 billion with €4.1 billion in once-off “cost of living” measures and €6.9 billion in spending and tax measures.

Speaking in the Dáil, Paschal Donohoe, the Minister for Finance, said that after the extraordinary spending of the last two pandemic budgets, the country was now facing a crisis of a very different kind.

“That is why the budget presented by Minister Michael McGrath and I today is and ...