Leo Varadkar: 'This budget will put money back in your pocket'

Government pledges to ease cost-of-living pressures for households and businesses, a better income tax package, and to help society's most vulnerable

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar takes a selfie with Nevin Cody at the Fine Gael think-in in Kilkenny. Picture: Dylan Vaughan

I took time out from the Fine Gael think-in in Kilkenny to meet families and businesses in the constituency. The number-one issue on the doors in Carlow town and among businesses in Kilkenny was the cost of living and the cost of doing business, with people worried about paying their bills, and how high energy and electricity prices are going to go.

They all wanted to know that the Government is going to help. That is exactly what we are going to do: Soften the blow of the rising cost of living.