Paschal Donohoe has promised that this year's Budget will help people struggling with the soaring cost of living.
Budget 2023 has been brought forward by two weeks to September 27 as the Government tries to tackle inflation which has seen food, gas and electricity prices soar this year with the ESRI saying 43% of households have now entered fuel poverty. The Finance Minister said this morning there was "huge anxiety" across the country about the spiralling energy costs and promised to introduce measures to help with costs.
"What I will be able to do, and can say now, is that we will be able to help," he told Morning Ireland on RTE. "How we will help and what we will do will be confirmed in the coming weeks as we get ready for Budget 2023."
