Pearse Doherty: “The reality is the money is there to do this.”

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.

Sinn Féin would also abolish the local property tax and instead introduce a second home charge.