Harris sees need to ‘move away from one-off measures on cost of living

SIMON Harris insists there is a need to “move away” from one-off Budget measures on the cost of living - as one of the State's major suppliers announced sweeping price hikes for electricity.

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The Fine Gael leader said “help is coming" on the cost of living in the Budget but he added that one-off measures are “not a good way to run a country”.

Speaking to RTE’s Morning Ireland from the think-in, Mr Harris said: “We've got to move away from this kind of one-off ‘will I get, won't I get?'

“That's no way for a family to plan, no way for a business to plan.”

Several of the so-called cost-of-living measures, such as energy credits, have been features of successive budgets.