Budget 2023
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-04
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Ged Nash (LAB), Louth

This time last week the Minister and his Government colleagues were patting themselves on the back on a job well done on budget day. There is no shortage of graphs and other narrative in the glossy expenditure report claiming how much better off low-income households will be as a result of the once-off measures combined with the budget 2023 measures. However, when we strip away the €4.1 billion in once-off measures, the picture is not as rosy as presented in the expenditure report. Why is there no analysis using the ESRI's simulating welfare, income tax, childcare and health policies, SWITCH, model done for budget 2023 specifically?

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Sitting date: 2022-10-04