Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

Please do not mislead carers. Family carers deserve to know the truth and this is the truth.

We have frozen VAT at 9% for gas and electricity for the next five years and we are making sure an extra 50,000 households throughout the country will benefit from the fuel allowance. We are extending the renter's tax credit. We have the back of Irish people and the back of businesses. Crucially, the measures in the budget most proportionately favour the most vulnerable in our society and that is the way it should be.

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