Paschal Donohoe: 70,000 will be back working by end of year

Getting people back into jobs will be a 'huge driver' of tax revenue increases, says finance minister

Paschal Donohoe: 'In every budget that I have done there has always been changes in taxes... that have made and delivered higher levels of tax revenue.' Picture: Moya Nolan

More than 70,000 people left unemployed because of Covid-19 will be back working by the end of the year, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said.

Mr Donohoe said that getting people back into jobs will be a "huge driver" of tax revenue increases.