Updated: 14 Apr 2021, 18:08 IRELAND’S unemployment rate will not recover to pre-pandemic levels until at least 2023, a new Department of Finance report has predicted. However, Ireland will not see an “austerity budget” for 2022, Public Expenditure Minister Micheal McGrath claimed, as there are “solid grounds for optimism” that the economic recovery will start later this year. 2 2 Finance Minister Paschal DonohoeCredit: PA The Government yesterday published a Stability Programme Update which outlines the catastrophic damage that Covid-19 has done to the public purse. The Department...