As it happened: How today’s big Budget 2025 giveaway played out [Video]

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MINISTERS JACK CHAMBERS and Paschal Donohoe have finished their Budget announcements and the reaction is continuing to flow in from the opposition, NGOs and campaign groups. 

Jammed with one-off cost-of-living measures and tax cuts, the €2.2 billion package is the Government’s final Budget before a general election takes place.

Pearse Doherty, reacting to the Government speeches in the Dáil on behalf of Sinn Féin, said it was “not a giveaway Budget” but a “giving up on housing Budget”. 

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