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
Prospect of €15 increases to weekly welfare payments fadesThe welfare budget is also set to be supplemented by one-off measuresFri Aug 19 2022 - 01:00
Minister of State Robert Troy discloses details of substantial property interestsFianna Fáil TD amends register of interests and apologises for ‘errors and omissions’Thu Aug 18 2022 - 15:58
Budget 2023: Tax breaks for landlords and tenants under considerationRestoration of tax credit for renters a ‘point of discussion’ along with measures to keep landlords in marketThu Aug 18 2022 - 05:00
Tax on alcohol and cigarettes set to remain untouched in budget but welfare battle looms Ministers unconvinced on increasing excise duty as tensions loom over suggestions of €15 welfare hikeThu Aug 18 2022 - 05:00
Government issues renewed appeal for accommodation for Ukrainian refugees Government appeals for properties to house new arrivals in medium-term as system under severe pressureThu Aug 18 2022 - 05:00
Ethics law review to examine disclosure obligations for TDs selling property to public bodiesTánaiste has ‘total confidence’ in Robert Troy amid questions over property interestsWed Aug 17 2022 - 20:45
New funding model for childcare operators ‘unsustainable’, providers say The €221-million programme requires services to sign up to agree to freeze fees at September 2021 levelsWed Aug 17 2022 - 17:30
Investigation into disclosures of Minister’s property interests soughtMinister of State Robert Troy’s dealings in relation to three properties in his constituency have come under scrutinyWed Aug 17 2022 - 05:00
Total of 48,000 Ukrainians forecast to have arrived in State by end of AugustPressure to continue on meeting war-fleeing refugees’ needs for immediate and longer-term accommodationWed Aug 17 2022 - 03:00
Robert Watt should head up both HSE and Department of Health to justify salary, Cowen saysSecretary general of Department of Health on salary of €294,920 as Fianna Fáil TD urges his parallel appointment to role being vacated by Paul ReidTue Aug 16 2022 - 21:04
Department offered thousands of beds to Ukrainians that were already filled with refugeesTensions grow between two Government departments over their respective roles in handling the fallout from the Ukrainian crisisTue Aug 16 2022 - 02:30
‘Great resignation’ and pandemic burnout putting ambulance service at risk - HSE documentsRecruitment efforts being surpassed by demand as healthcare workers seek jobs with better work-life balance, leaving a ‘resource gap’Mon Aug 15 2022 - 03:48
Staffing crisis threatens ambulance response timesHSE report warns recruitment being surpassed by demand for organisation’s services, which ‘poses serious risk’ to ability to deliver servicesMon Aug 15 2022 - 03:45
‘Significant gap’ in public pay to be bridged, warn union leaders, as talks set to resume Government says it is willing to improve its pay offer for public sector workers, but increases would not match record levels of inflationSun Aug 14 2022 - 22:02
Green Party among those opposed to 30% income tax rate proposal for budgetIdea seems likely to be dropped in favour of widening tax bands and indexing them to wagesSun Aug 14 2022 - 21:51
Varadkar says Griffith and Collins did not believe there was ‘no alternative to war’Tanaiste tells commemoration that Griffith ‘never lost heart, he never wavered in his belief, he never stopped working for freedom’Sun Aug 14 2022 - 16:54
Extra cost-of-living package of up to €1bn planned for budget dayMore electricity subsidies and a bonus welfare payment being examined as ‘once-off’ measuresSat Aug 13 2022 - 05:00
Budget 2023: The winners, the losers and the battles still being foughtCoalition faces tough tax and spending choices as it struggles with a likely economic slowdown and soaring inflationSat Aug 13 2022 - 05:00
Coalition pledges tax package to benefit almost all workersWelfare recipients, renters and landlords set to gain from upcoming budgetThu Aug 11 2022 - 05:00
Creation of 30% tax rate would be a ‘significant’ structural change, Donohoe saysMinister for Finance does not see Irish economy sliding into recession this year but says grave risks lie ahead in 2023Wed Aug 10 2022 - 18:30
Irish vacant property levels ‘in line with functioning housing market’, report findsDepartment of Finance study finds vacancy is ‘predominantly short term’ and mainly due to ‘refurbishment’Wed Aug 10 2022 - 15:18
Government yet to act on months-old proposal to house UkrainiansProposal would see builders convert vacant buildings into homes on pro-bono basis, with costs recoupableWed Aug 10 2022 - 01:00
Over 1,200 Ukrainian refugees set to exit student quarters ‘by mid-September’Department of Integration also signals that thousands due to be moved before end of this monthMon Aug 08 2022 - 21:20
Green Party concerned at remarks by FF and FG Ministers on Shannon gas projectContributions from Coalition Ministers of State run to ‘grasping opportunity’ and improving security of supplyMon Aug 08 2022 - 20:20
More than one million people could benefit from new tax rate of 30%, analysis findsProposals are due to be assessed as part of the Department of Finance’s annual publication of Tax Strategy Group papersFri Aug 05 2022 - 19:43
State bodies told to redouble efforts to identify properties for housing useGovernment departments and agencies offered disused harbourmasters’ cottages, ‘marriage quarters’ in Garda stations and stipulations that some homes could only be built for Irish speakersFri Aug 05 2022 - 07:22
