Pearse Doherty: “You withdrew energy credits in the last Budget. We have the highest prices in Europe. Companies are to jack up their…”

The majority of Irish workers, over a million and a half of them, who you’ve left abandoned in this Budget will get less than €250 in a tax break.

The Budget must put ordinary workers and families first and look after the most vulnerable, adding that a proper cost of living package was needed now.

We are also clamping down in gold-plated pensions.

We're going to keep putting the pressure on Government. We still don't know what the Government's going to do.