The Transport Minister says it's too early to decide how the spare 1 billion euro will be used in Budget 2014.

The cash means extra money in the pot for government ministers - they've been told that savings needed to be achieved from next year’s budget have been reduced from 3 billion to 2 billion euro.

It's not yet clear if the money will be used to ease off on planned cuts and tax hikes or if it will be used to fund a stimulus programme to get people back to work.

Leo Varadkar says while lowering country's deficit is important, unemployment is an issue he would like to see brought under control:

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