In terms of the cost-of-living package for budget 2023, we need to build on what we did as a Government in budget 2022 but to include further income tax adjustments so that the squeezed middle does not lose most of any pay increase in income tax, USC and PRSI; pension and welfare increases; reductions in the costs that are out of line with those in other EU countries, to include increasing universal childcare subsidies for all parents; and making the recent reductions in public transport permanent. Our motion calls for a cost of living package in budget 2023 to build on a cost of living package in 2022.

We need to help people deal with the cost of living, especially those on lower incomes and the squeezed middle, and to support people into the future.

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