Donohoe: It would have been risky to exceed €4.7bn budget spend

Finance minister Paschal Donohoe at Government Buildings before unveiling Budget 2022. Picture: Julien Behal/PA Wire

It would have been "very risky" to have gone beyond the €4.7bn spend in Budget 2022, finance minister Paschal Donohoe has said. 

While the economy has performed better than expected in the last 12 months, Mr Donohoe warned that it would have been risky to put additional public money into an economy which, he said, "already has evident constraints".