Increasing spend ‘won’t necessarily’ improve public services, Taoiseach warns

Increasing spend will not necessarily improve public services, the Taoiseach has warned.

Simon Harris also said there must be extra funding for a cost-of-living and welfare package in the next budget, along with indexed tax bands so that people “do not drift into the higher rate band”.

Meanwhile, finance minister Michael McGrath also said there would be further measures on personal taxation in the upcoming budget but warned that the emphasis should move away from “exceptional” cost-of-living measures.

Mr McGrath said: “We are in a different place when it comes to inflation and I think overall the emphasis should be on permanent changes and permanent measures to our expenditure and taxation framework rather than a large series of one-off measures.

“But that’s not to say that we made any specific decisions about individual measures or specific…

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