Ireland’s Budget 2022 — delivered on 12 Oct 2021 — is significantly less than the 2021 budget (€4.7 billion versus 17 billion), and focuses on a range of measures to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit. A much-improved 6.5% growth rate is expected for 2022, with employment figures reverting to pre-pandemic levels.
The budget did not include any expenditure allocation to implement the automatic enrolment retirement savings system (the policy featured in the 2020 Programme for Government), or recommendations arising from the Report of the Commission on Pensions published on 8 Oct 2021.
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