Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Ciarán Nugent:

It is of course. There is also a generational issue there. Those generational wages are important to judge against the cost of living. For instance, we are talking about the minimum wage going up by between 4% and 5% this year. That is what is being signalled. Rent went up by 7%. We got people again further-----