Fianna Fáil wants pensioners to get another €5 per week in the budget

As its negotiations with the Government continue, Fianna Fáil has called for pensioners to get at least another €5 in the budget and is also seeking other welfare-linked increases.

Budget 2019 will need to include similar increases agreed for the state pension last year, the party’s finance spokesman Michael McGrath has told the Irish Examiner.