A leading expert has suggested the government could pay a "Christmas Bonus" to social welfare recipients now in order to tackle the soaring coast of living.
Dr Alan Barrett, Director of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), was suggesting ways in which those at high risk could be supported as inflation continues to rise.
He told RTE's Morning Ireland: "In a general sense we would always use the social welfare system to deal with problems such as this as that is the quickest way to have a targeted approach to a group of people we want to insulate from this high inflation.
