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After the pre-election give-away comes the hangover. Tuesday is Budget Day 2026 and it is likely to be a pretty sober day for many households after the Minister for Finance confirmed there wouldn’t be any personal tax cuts.
Paschal Donohoe and Jack Chambers have also said there will not be any once-off cost-of-living payments this year either as the focus is on trying to address some of the country’s infrastructure deficits.
As Cliff Taylor notes in his column this weekend; the planned budget spending increase o
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