Paschal Donohoe

Department of Public Expenditure noted efforts to recruit project director at lower salary failed to yield candidate of sufficient calibre to manage likely ‘largest-ever public investment project in the history of the State’

Minister for Public Expenditure says Government would continue to help families address the impact of high prices

Government will make additional €1.2bn available for health service despite almost 10% cost overrun so far this year

Government is planning another round of once-off household supports while struggling to keep permanent spending under control

Government surplus hit €3.4 billion as spending lags revenue

Me and My Money: Pascal Donohoe is Minister for Public Expenditure

Two books attempt to diagnose our discontents and offer advice for a better and safer world

Well-being framework designed to use measures other than economic to gauge Ireland’s progress

High profile semi States including ESB, DAA, VHI and Bord na Móna have called for greater flexibility on pay to retain talent

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

A bumper €8.3bn package is planned, with much of the extra cash going to the health service and State investment

Minister for Finance Jack Chambers did not betray any inexperience during the Summer Economic Statement, but October will be the true test

Cumulative breaches of the rule will, in real money terms, be in region of €11 billion by the end of next year

Following ‘intensive’ talks more would be done on spending side than through tax cuts, says Taoiseach

Hospital emergency department overcrowding and national swimming strategy to be discussed by Ministers

The eminence of Stiglitz is due to the range of his writing and academic excellence. This was recognised in a Nobel Prize for research on the impact of information on the operation of markets

France’s snap elections heightened concern about the country’s public finances

The new Minister must use the pre-election budget to perform an interconnected series of balances

Pressure likely to mount on Chambers and Donohoe to be generous as corporation tax receipts up 15 per cent on last year

Though the tone is light, this study of the creation of currency is serious and the academic rigour is clear

Minister for Finance says Ministers will have to prioritise in new post-Covid, post-inflationary crisis period

Government is expecting a surplus of €8.6 billion this year

A series of acts were introduced to cut spending on remuneration and pensions for State employees following the collapse of the public finances in 2008

The newly appointed minister warns he will be ‘well able to say no in the national interest’ ahead of Budget talks

Minister says majority still pays fee and warns tens of millions would have to be found elsewhere to fund broadcasting

Prices for housing in affordable-housing schemes would be higher without Government intervention, says Donohoe

Michael McGrath’s much-rumoured move to Brussels would leave Paschal Donohoe to face a solo battle over spending demands in the run in to a general election

Eamon Ryan’s replacement as Green leader - to be named on July 8th - is expected to assert themselves but there’s little time to make an impact before the next electoral contest

Minister for Finance Michael McGrath tipped for nomination as Ireland’s EU commissioner

Office of Government Procurement scheme worth €30m permits purchase of ‘remanufactured’ laptops to cut costs and carbon emissions

The same story played out nationally in the local elections: Fine Gael holding its own, Independents storming ahead and scores of Sinn Féin candidates left trailing

Local and European elections: Taoiseach Simon Harris does lap of honour at count centre as Sunday’s tale of two parties came with an ending neither was expecting

Latest exchequer returns show corporate tax receipts rose by 30 per cent in May, allaying fears that 2024 would see a downturn

Cabinet signs off on plans for digital wallet and ‘life events’ online portal

Extremes of cold and heat may necessitate protection of housing stock, Eamon Ryan will say

The State risks losing out as a bidding war breaks out for major projects between the big countries, including huge subsidies for US companies to encourage them to invest at home

Minister for Public Expenditure taking part as Eurogroup head, while former taoiseach says he will be going at own expense

New measures to allow for the imposition of sanctions, including a ban on lobbying for two years, to come into effect from this weekend

Minister for Finance says workers are likely to benefit from further changes to income tax system and a fall-off in headline inflation

Sports injury specialist Ray Moran’s vote of confidence in his own knees, Albert Manifold’s planning setbacks, and the IRFU’s home extensions