Overview

• RTÉ is streaming the Finance and Public Expenditure speeches live from Dáil Éireann across RTÉ One, the RTÉ News Channel, Radio 1 and Raidió na Gaeltachta.
• TV coverage begins at 12:40pm with Sharon Ní Bheoláin and David McCullagh, with an extended News at One on Radio 1 and evening analysis shows scheduled.
• Journalists describe the package as one of the most constrained in recent years with few one-off cost-of-living measures.
• Reporting points to limited gains for middle-income workers while carers and the Working Family Payment receive targeted support.
• The Irish Independent reports a roughly €500m boost for disability services and a carbon tax increase that would raise fuel prices.