Government must decide if bigger pay offer to public sector is affordable or justified

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Michael McGrath. Photo: Gareth Chaney

Anne-Marie Walsh

Any plans to disrupt Budget 2023 would go down about as well as Lidl or Aldi jacking up their prices by 100pc at the moment.

Cost-of-living coalitions are marching on the Dáil and the Government is besieged by demands to help the hard-pressed endure the ravages of the worst inflation in 40 years.