The Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has predicted the public will face €6 carbon tax hikes every year over the coming decade despite the looming "significant threat" to the economy posed by a no deal Brexit.

Brexit was one of three threats demanding attention in Paschal Donohoe’s Budget 2020 speech. The main threat, climate change, is existential, but apparently not considered urgent. Brexit is a threat that could deliver an economic wallop and then some. And, as this is a political forum, the third threat came from voters demanding an election budget.

On his way into his department yesterday, the man of the moment – Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe – told us all not to expect any surprises. He wasn't lying.

Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe joins Political Editor Daniel McConell to break down the main details from Budget 2020.

In 1989, then-finance minister and would-be taoiseach Albert Reynolds was eviscerated for dismissing Fianna Fáil’s coalition with the Progressive Democrats as a “temporary little arrangement”, writres Daniel McConell.