Donohoe: Budget 2025 not designed to keep voters sweet before election

Paschal Donohoe delivers Budget 2025. Picture: Oireachtas TV

Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe has denied that Tuesday's budget is an election budget designed to keep voters sweet before heading to the polls.

Speaking to the Irish Examiner, Mr Donohoe said that an election budget would have seen the €25bn surplus doled out rather than allocating €16bn to two separate funds for next year.