Cian O'Callaghan: “That's the level of support pensioners living alone got in yesterday's budget, the equivalent of a butter voucher.”

These delays are not abstract. They involve people waiting for cancer diagnosis.

It takes place at weekends because of the way CUMH and the Rotunda operates their rosters.

This should include a €400 energy credit for households earning €70,000 or less, a €15 increase to the State pension, a €300 per month cut to childcare fees, a €1bn investment in disability services, a second tier of child benefit…

A previous stamp duty cut took place at the end of the Celtic Tiger era, at which point the country was promised it would not happen again without proper protections being put in place.