Louise Burne: Government making budget promises in age of uncertainty

Public expenditure minister Jack Chambers and Tánaiste and finance minister Simon Harris at a press conference on the annual progress report.

For the second year in a row, the money ministers were publishing their annual progress report amid a wave of global uncertainty.

Last year, then finance minister Paschal Donohoe and public expenditure minister Jack Chambers unveiled 2025’s iteration of the document just a month after US president Donald Trump had announced sweeping global tariffs.