Taoiseach 'would not overstate' coalition tensions over budget to tackle cost-of-living crisis

Micheál Martin said the first major development in the Government's tackling of the cost-of-living crisis will be the Summer Economic Statement

The Taoiseach Micheál Martin: "The war in Ukraine has unleashed a humanitarian crisis, the likes of which we have not seen since World War II, with very serious migration flows across Europe, a huge energy crisis and now, and in the next while, famine – a potential food crisis globally." Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

The Taoiseach said that he “would not overstate” any rising tensions in the coalition over how to best tackle the cost-of-living crisis in the next budget.

But he said that Government “fully realised” the difficulties spiralling costs are creating for people. The October budget will be a ‘cost of living budget’, he said at the official opening of Park Place Technologies’ new facility in Blarney Business Park, Cork, which plans to now double its workforce.