The Labour Party also said it would abolish the means test on the Carer’s Allowance, increase social welfare rates and charge a windfall tax on energy profits and data centres to pay for targeted energy support payments to households.

Speaking at the launch on Thursday finance spokesman Ged Nash TD insisted the plans are “fully funded through sustainable taxes”.

At the alternative budget’s launch on Thursday the party’s representatives repeatedly focused on issues affecting children and young people with Mr Nash saying: “We have record numbers at work, with record numbers of children with no place to call home.

“We have eye-watering business tax returns side by side with shameful levels of child poverty.”

The Labour Party’s plan for free GP care for children would be rolled out over a

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