Billions of euro in additional spending is expected as part of today's budget
It'll focus on Covid, Brexit, housing and getting people back to work.
One of the last measures agreed was to give some 400,000 social welfare recipients a Christmas bonus, so long as they've been on it for a total of 4 months.
DCU professor Edgar Morgenroth says the government's strategy of borrowing to fund its budget spending is a good one:
