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Budget

This year
2025
Childcare
Opinion: When it comes to early years education, we're waiting for the Donogh O’Malley moment
Grainne McKenna & Dr Sheila Garrity
4 Jan
11.6k
start planning now
Financial analyst: Five ways your finances could change in 2025
Ralph Benson
1 Jan
14.8k
10
budget 2025
These are the Budget 2025 measures that will take effect from today
1 Jan
65.9k
Last year
2024
HISMM
Money Diaries: A tax accountant on €100K living in Wicklow
TheJournal.ie reader
10 Nov 2024
34.3k
62
United Kingdom
Warnings of spending cuts and tax increases precede Labour Government's budget announcement
29 Oct 2024
9.6k
36
Analysis
Extension of mortgage relief shows Ireland's housing spending increasingly based on vibes
Look at many of the government’s housing policies, and a similar pattern emerges.
Paul O'Donoghue
13 Oct 2024
19.5k
budget 2025
First lump sum cost-of-living payment to be made on 28 October
8 Oct 2024
74.3k
101
budget 2025
Up to 100 new speed cameras will be rolled out during 2025
3 Oct 2024
20.7k
65
budget 2025
PAC member sharply criticises Govt after it increases horse and greyhound funding to €99.1m
2 Oct 2024
6.4k
Analysis
Budget 2025: Our spending is soaring ... did we learn nothing at all from the last crisis?
Analysis: The party poopers have been consistently wrong for years – the problem is that they just have to be right once.
Paul O'Donoghue
2 Oct 2024
7.8k
35
Boom to Bust
Watchdog warns €9.1bn bonanza Budget ‘repeats Ireland's past mistakes'
2 Oct 2024
11.2k
31
The Morning Lead
Budget 2025: When do the new measures kick in and when will we see the bumper payments?
Here’s what to expect in the year to come.
Muiris O'Cearbhaill
2 Oct 2024
57.9k
42
Budget2025
Single working woman: 'This budget just flat out ignored anyone without a family and a home'
Single woman
1 Oct 2024
23.9k
45
in short
Something for everyone in the audience? The key points from Budget 2025
Finance Minister Jack Chambers has confirmed a range of measures.
Updated 1 Oct 2024
80.6k
102
Michael McMonagle
Taoiseach raises SF press office controversy during heated Dáil exchange with Pearse Doherty
1 Oct 2024
15.9k
housing and homelessness
What about housing? Giveaway budget could have done more to address crisis - charities
1 Oct 2024
3.6k
12
As it happened
How today's big Budget 2025 giveaway played out
This is the Government’s final Budget before a general election takes place.
Updated 1 Oct 2024
93.6k
97
RELATED
Something for everyone in the audience? The key points from Budget 2025
1 Oct 2024
'In crisis': Hospitality sector 'gravely concerned' at decision to keep VAT at 13.5%
1 Oct 2024
in your pocket
Here's what Budget 2025 means for your payslip if you're earning €20,000
1 Oct 2024
15.9k
18
Leaving Cert
The free schoolbooks scheme is being extended again (and booksellers aren't delighted)
1 Oct 2024
6.6k
5
Public Transport
Free public transport for children under nine and companions for over-70s
Updated 1 Oct 2024
8.5k
5
budget 2025
Pension, jobseeker's, carer's and disability allowances to increase by €12 per week
1 Oct 2024
73.5k
14
Thinking of the children
Two double child benefits before Christmas and a €420 'baby boost' for birth of a child
1 Oct 2024
31.7k
10
home ownership
Help-to-buy scheme extended as Stamp Duty for €1.5m homes rises
1 Oct 2024
7.2k
3
budget 2025
Women affected by CervicalCheck failures given exemption from taxes on payments and investments
1 Oct 2024
6.0k
11
budget 2025
Student contribution fee set to be cut by €1,000 in Budget
1 Oct 2024
26.3k
1
companion pass
Over 70s to be allowed bring loved one or friend on public transport for free
1 Oct 2024
209k
8
The Morning Lead
It's Budget Day 2025 - Here's a look at how things will play out
Two double child benefit payments, a cut to USC, fuel payments and a €1,000 rent tax credit are all expected in today’s announcement.
1 Oct 2024
22.7k
64
€2 billion package
Budget 2025: €420 'baby boost' for new parents among one-off payments in cost of living package
Some once-off payments will likely be issued before Christmas.
Updated 30 Sep 2024
100k
199
budget 2025
Ministers play down reports of Budget rows as talks between coalition leaders continue
Updated 29 Sep 2024
15.7k
73
White Paper
Department of Finance’s ‘White Paper’ ahead of Budget confirms €25 billion surplus
28 Sep 2024
11.8k
76
Money Money Money
Budget 2025: Everything we know so far about what to expect
28 Sep 2024
33.9k
94
Alternative Budget
Sinn Féin budget, not Govt's, would benefit average worker by €1,000, claims Pearse Doherty
Updated 26 Sep 2024
8.8k
84
The Morning Lead
'I work part-time as I couldn't get childcare': Readers on what they'd like to see in the Budget
Tax reform, funding for childcare and healthcare and Apple’s money were common features from our readers’ suggestions.
Muiris O'Cearbhaill
20 Sep 2024
14.3k
56
bite of the apple
Cost-of-living package in Budget won't be as big as previous years, Finance Minister confirms
18 Sep 2024
24.6k
120
Childcare
Taoiseach says there is a 'roadmap’ to higher Child Benefit for low income families but not in Budget 2025
Updated 17 Sep 2024
10.5k
27
The Budget
Taoiseach denies u-turn on stamp duty for homes bulk-purchased by vulture funds
9 Sep 2024
12.2k
37
The Morning Lead
Budget watchdog warns Govt may have to ‘reverse promises’ as 'boasts of a surplus are misleading'
The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council said the Government’s ‘everything now’ approach is ‘needlessly adding to pressures’.
Diarmuid Pepper
4 Sep 2024
17.0k
66
Banking
Chambers to extend bank levy on deposits as part of Budget 2025
27 Aug 2024
15.1k
17
budget 2025
October budget to feature cost-of-living package, says Taoiseach
7 Aug 2024
39.7k
77
what's on the cards
Budget 2025: Vape tax, double child benefit, but no rise in jobseeker’s payment
The finance minister said there will be a ‘substantial’ package of supports for pensioners.
1 Aug 2024
71.2k
78
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