Dizzying array of budget breaks show Ministers in emergency modeInside Politics: Measures announced today may not prove equal to upcoming challenges despite astonishing scaleTue Sept 27 2022 - 07:45
Budget 2023 to include €12 weekly welfare rise and supports for businesses, parents and rentersBusinesses with soaring energy bills will be given up to €10,000 a monthTue Sept 27 2022 - 03:14
Budget 2023: Renters to get €1,000 tax breaks over two yearsBusinesses in line for payments of up to €10,000 a month to help them with energy billsMon Sept 26 2022 - 21:30
Budget 2023: What’s agreed, what’s outstanding and where the landmines are Analysis: Coalition faces a huge task to try and meet the myriad demands for assistanceMon Sept 26 2022 - 11:12
One-off budget measures to ‘flow quickly’, according to MinisterMany features of Budget 2023 still to be settled as party leaders meet McGrath and DonohoeMon Sept 26 2022 - 05:00
Budget 2023: Free schoolbooks and tax break for renters in store in €10bn package Finishing touches being put to measures designed to counter inflationMon Sept 26 2022 - 05:00
Budget 2023: Health spending agreed following tension over allocated fundingKey decisions down to the wire on welfare increases, supports for business and childcare fundingSun Sept 25 2022 - 12:52
What’s the latest on State pension reforms?The most eye-catching is the introduction of a new sliding scale which will allow you to draw down bigger pensionsSat Sept 24 2022 - 05:00
Last-minute dispute over healthcare spending as budget day approachesPackage on offer may leave little room for Minister’s plans to expand servicesSat Sept 24 2022 - 04:04
FG and FF failed to make submissions to State commission on tax and welfare Proposals received cool reception from Ministers while Tánaiste dismissed some as being ‘straight out of Sinn Féin manifesto’Fri Sept 23 2022 - 00:51
State faces renewed pressure to accommodate Ukrainians as hotel contracts due to expireThird of contracts with accommodation providers that supply 30,000 beds to expire before end of yearThu Sept 22 2022 - 20:55
Government plans to put solar panels on every school in the country Eamon Ryan’s “rooftop revolution” will make the installation of solar panels easier and more cost effective for homeowners, businesses and public bodiesThu Sept 22 2022 - 20:40
State pension pot faces ‘growing deficits’, Ministers warnedDemographic pressures set to erode social insurance fund surplus, private paper presented to Cabinet saysThu Sept 22 2022 - 00:05
Fine Gael meeting hears calls to extend 9 per cent tourism Vat rateIssues surrounding carbon tax, school buses and budget measures to support small businesses also raisedWed Sept 21 2022 - 21:21
McEntee criticised over response to anti-social behaviour in DublinFianna Fáil Oireachtas members say a ‘real edge’ has developed in Dublin and there is enough ‘Government focus’Wed Sept 21 2022 - 18:59
Large hikes in PRSI rates likely needed to keep pension age at 66, says fiscal watchdogDecision not to raise pension age means higher taxes will be needed to ensure the system is sustainable, Ifac chair saysWed Sept 21 2022 - 02:45
Time will reveal if the pensions time bomb has been defused or deferredReforms approved by Cabinet an effort to address myriad problems posed by festering political problemTue Sept 20 2022 - 19:52
Taoiseach accuses Sinn Féin of ‘deliberately not telling the truth’ on pensionsMcDonald describes new proposals as a ‘Trojan horse’ designed ‘to move the pension age to 70 by stealth’Tue Sept 20 2022 - 17:25
PRSI hikes needed to keep pension age at 66, Heather Humphreys saysMary Lou McDonald says changes a ‘Trojan horse’ to raise the pension age to 70Tue Sept 20 2022 - 13:09
Farming conference aims to advance recognition of women in agri-food sectorFormer minister Mary Coughlan to chair forum which will promote ‘visibility and status of women in agriculture’Tue Sept 20 2022 - 12:30
Major financial package expected to help with fuel bills as vast implications of energy crisis become clearPrice projections ‘off the Richter scale’ with estimate of average annual household bill rising from €2,000 last year to €6,000 next yearSat Sept 10 2022 - 05:00
Household bills to soar further as companies warn of ‘entire market malfunction’Dire warnings will increase pressure on Government to support households with a massive budgetary intervention of one-off measuresSat Sept 10 2022 - 05:00
Solving housing crisis ‘not about the money’, says CoveneyFG ministers decline to comment on Paschal Donohoe’s future as head of EurogroupFri Sept 09 2022 - 17:43
Sinn Féin government will leave Ireland ‘out of the tent’ in Europe, says VaradkarTánaiste compares Mary Lou McDonald’s potential leadership to that of right-wing Hungarian PM Viktor OrbánFri Sept 09 2022 - 14:43
Household supports for soaring energy bills will extend into 2023, says VaradkarIreland will examine all options around a cap on energy prices, according to TánaisteFri Sept 09 2022 - 11:12
Catherine Murphy ‘fully entitled’ to refuse to disclose sources regarding Siteserv transactionSome witnesses argued that the TD had waived her privilege by providing witness statements, but this was rejected by her, with the Cregan Commission agreeingWed Sept 07 2022 - 18:28
Emergency planning exercises planned to war-game impact of a major disruption to energy suppliesThe exercises will involved Gas Networks Ireland, Eirgrid, ESB Networks and the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU)Wed Sept 07 2022 - 18:17
Over 85% of properties pledged for Ukrainian refugees not ‘activated’Some 1,440 accommodation pledges brought on stream with difficulties encountered filling properties in remote or rural locationsWed Sept 07 2022 - 00:00
Budget 2023: Cost of living package could rise to €2bnSurging energy bills and large exchequer surplus means larger suite of once-off measures now expectedTue Sept 06 2022 - 23:13
What are European countries doing to help their citizens with rising energy bills?Approach taken across EU ranges from frozen bills, price caps and lump-sum paymentsTue Sept 06 2022 - 05:00
‘Accommodation tax’ for tourists proposed by Tax and Welfare CommissionCharge on tourists to ensure they pay towards provision of services recommended to Department of FinanceSat Sept 03 2022 - 00:01
Surging tax revenues provide Government with unprecedented war chest ahead of budgetCommission on Taxation and Welfare recommend consideration of ‘tourist tax’Sat Sept 03 2022 - 00:01
Top civil servant Robert Watt will not benefit from terms of new public pay dealMinisters told in private deal would not increase salary of ‘a serving secretary general in Civil Service to a salary rate above current highest rate’Fri Sept 02 2022 - 19:58
INMO advises its members to accept 6.5% pay increaseFórsa is also recommending the deal to its members after it voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of the pay packageFri Sept 02 2022 - 18:30
Government defends its Housing for All plan despite Opposition saying it is failingThe plan commits to state investment of over €4 billion a year in housing, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said in a statementFri Sept 02 2022 - 16:54
Donnelly says he would not have benefited from proposed tax law changes for ‘accidental landlords’Minister for Health’s statement follows revelations that he did not register a tenancy with the RTB for three yearsFri Sept 02 2022 - 15:53
Low rates of VAT should be avoided, tax commission tells GovernmentCommission on Tax and Welfare advises windfall corporation tax receipts go to rainy day fund or pay down debtThu Sept 01 2022 - 01:00
Fianna Fáil’s Dara Calleary makes dramatic political comeback to ministerial ranks Career in Cabinet appeared over with resignation from agriculture portfolio after Golfgate controversyWed Aug 31 2022 - 19:00
Wealth, property and inheritance taxes should be raised, says commissionReport from commission on tax and welfare counsels significant reorientation of systemWed Aug 31 2022 - 01:00
What options does Government have to help protect consumers from major energy shock?Windfall taxes on utility companies, VAT cuts, rebates and welfare increases among potential options to tackle soaring energy costsTue Aug 30 2022 - 19:40
EU preparing ‘emergency intervention’ in energy market to drive down prices‘Skyrocketing’ electricity prices are exposing limitations of current electricity market design, European Commission president saysTue Aug 30 2022 - 05:00
Government to produce new plan to tackle energy poverty amid fears of sky-high billsEamon Ryan will tell Oireachtas environment committee on Tuesday about the planMon Aug 29 2022 - 20:31
Report on Holohan TCD post plan sent to parties named in itMinister for Health to publish ‘as soon as he can’ report on abandoned plan to appoint former chief medical officer to new professorship in TrinityMon Aug 29 2022 - 19:53
Consumers warned to expect further energy price hikes in coming weeksDepartment of Finance and Revenue Commissioners examining Green Party proposal for windfall tax on energy companiesSat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
How Official Ireland is planning to keep the lights on in a doomsday scenarioAs war in Ukraine threatens gas supplies and highlights issues of energy costs and system security, emergency plans provide for fuel rationingSat Aug 27 2022 - 04:30
People struggling with utility bills this winter to be given more time to pay under new plansCost of electricity, gas and oil have all increased by significant margins in the last 12 monthsThu Aug 25 2022 - 05:00
State may be reliant on gas supplied via UK ‘within four years’Government documents also note concerns over future capacity of key infrastructure to handle peak demandThu Aug 25 2022 - 04:45
Fuel shortages may threaten State’s capacity to ‘maintain societal function and civil order’Supply choke scenarios drawn up to cover fuel allocation to different user categories and intensified roles for Garda, Army and Minister for EnvironmentWed Aug 24 2022 - 05:00
70% of Irish households would be in energy poverty in worst-case scenarios drawn up for crisis groupSeparate documents show officials flagged risks about capacity to maintain ‘civil order’ in a worst-case scenario interruption to fuel supplyWed Aug 24 2022 - 05:00
Fianna Fáil TD Cathal Crowe ordered by Sipo to hand back €800 of donationFour Oireachtas members received donations above threshold for which they had to declare themMon Aug 22 2022 - 17:16
