Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Social Democrats say they are opposed to energy credits, so it is interesting. A lot of the measures we introduced last year were targeted, like the living alone allowance and the qualified child increment lump sum and the working family payment. Some of the progressive measures I introduced with the additional tax credits, for example, were very much targeted at many vulnerable people in our society. That will all be considered in the context of budget 2026. As I have said, progressivity and the distributional analysis will be at the core of how we frame the wider budgetary process. We want to get back to a point where it is done through the normal budget and not through ad hoc changes through the year.

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