Budget 2026: Pearse Doherty said election promises were 'torn up and thrown in the bin'. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos
Ordinary people “are left out in the cold” in a budget that “reads as a catalogue of handouts for those at the top”, according to Sinn Féin finance spokesman Pearse Doherty.
Responding to Budget 2026, he said the “hard reality” and the “big message” for ordinary people “is that you’re on your own”.
Mr Doherty told the Dáil, “I am shocked by what’s in the budget ...
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