The government is to expand cost-of-living supports. What areas do they need to target and how quickly can it be done as inflation continues. Pat discussed this with Jack Hogan Jones Political Reporter with The Irish Times and Dermot Jewell, a Policy advisor with the Consumer Association of Ireland.

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