Charlie Weston
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Personal Finance: Grocery Price Hikes On The Way · 23 Sep 2026
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That translates into higher electricity and gas prices.
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So that's yeah that's only going one way.
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And then early in in in in October you have VHI, Leia, their second price rises in a year.
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You know, the cumulative impact here could be people uh r renewing b paying an extra two hundred to three hundred Euros, you know.
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Uh you have interest rates going up on if you have a tracker, Netflix has gone up and PRSI.
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Yeah, this is an analysis done by bonkers.ie, but s essentially what we're talking about is all of these different increases that I've talked about, they total up over a full year about a thousand euros, and the best we can probably expect is five hundred euros in a tax break.
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That's based on a billion and ten or a week.
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Tenor a week.
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So you're you get maybe five hundred Euros b you know of a tax lower tax, but it's double again in in price rises.
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So you g you it's gonna be wiped out.
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The tax benefit you get will be wiped out by these price increases is the point here.
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So, you know, it's gonna be very tough for people.
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And as you say, there's probably more coming.
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If the Americans, which they're talking about doing now, restrict exports of diesel, that will send diesel prices up even higher.
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And in France this week, they're uh restricting access there's there's a a run on diesel and petrol, you know, there's uh
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uh a shortage basically.
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So you know sorry, no good news as as usual.
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But you know, uh the budget will need to we do an awful lot of things.
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I'm not sure it's capable of doing what it's what people hope it'll do.
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Yeah, Matt, there has been serious increases, ridiculous increases.
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