Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-15
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

As to what the measures will look like, they will be both universal and targeted. They will be targeted because pensioners, people on low incomes and people in receipt of social welfare payments are suffering the most from the rising cost of living, particularly because groceries and energy costs have gone up the most. There will therefore be targeted measures and there will be a welfare element to this, as I said on Sunday. There will, however, be universal measures as well because all households, including middle-income households, are experiencing the rise in the cost of living, and I do not think it would be right to tell middle-income families that they are being left out and that we are doing nothing for them.

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