Inflation Rate
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-09
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Pearse Doherty (SF), Donegal

For the budget in which the Government withdrew supports and broke promise after promise about income tax cuts that were made to workers during in election, the Department expected that inflation would be 1.9% next year and 1.8% this year. Maybe the Minister will outline that inflation is actually way above 1.8%, not far off double that figure. Would the Minister not agree? We understand the flash estimate puts inflation at 3.2%.
Does the Minister have any concern that there are people out there who are finding it really difficult to make ends meet? Many of them are not making ends meet. The Government projected a budget based on a projected rate of inflation that is way lower than what is actually happening in the real, lived experience of people's lives. Will the Minister consider a cost-of-living package or is the message "You are on your own, folks"?

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Sitting date: 2025-12-09