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Budget

    Cautious Budget on the cards as ministers rule out spending and tax decisions that create new risks
    Opinion: When it comes to early years education, we're waiting for the Donogh O’Malley moment
    Grainne McKenna & Dr Sheila Garrity
    Financial analyst: Five ways your finances could change in 2025
    Ralph Benson
    These are the Budget 2025 measures that will take effect from today
    Money Diaries: A tax accountant on €100K living in Wicklow
    TheJournal.ie reader
    Warnings of spending cuts and tax increases precede Labour Government's budget announcement
    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.
    First lump sum cost-of-living payment to be made on 28 October
    Up to 100 new speed cameras will be rolled out during 2025
    PAC member sharply criticises Govt after it increases horse and greyhound funding to €99.1m
    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.
    Watchdog warns €9.1bn bonanza Budget ‘repeats Ireland's past mistakes'
    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.
    Single working woman: 'This budget just flat out ignored anyone without a family and a home'
    Single woman
    Something for everyone in the audience? The key points from Budget 2025
    Finance Minister Jack Chambers has confirmed a range of measures.
    Taoiseach raises SF press office controversy during heated Dáil exchange with Pearse Doherty
    What about housing? Giveaway budget could have done more to address crisis - charities
    How today's big Budget 2025 giveaway played out
    This is the Government’s final Budget before a general election takes place.
    Here's what Budget 2025 means for your payslip if you're earning €20,000
    The free schoolbooks scheme is being extended again (and booksellers aren't delighted)
    Free public transport for children under nine and companions for over-70s
    Pension, jobseeker's, carer's and disability allowances to increase by €12 per week
    Two double child benefits before Christmas and a €420 'baby boost' for birth of a child
    Help-to-buy scheme extended as Stamp Duty for €1.5m homes rises
    Women affected by CervicalCheck failures given exemption from taxes on payments and investments
    Student contribution fee set to be cut by €1,000 in Budget
    Over 70s to be allowed bring loved one or friend on public transport for free
    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.
    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.
    Ministers play down reports of Budget rows as talks between coalition leaders continue
    Department of Finance’s ‘White Paper’ ahead of Budget confirms €25 billion surplus
    Budget 2025: Everything we know so far about what to expect
    Sinn Féin budget, not Govt's, would benefit average worker by €1,000, claims Pearse Doherty
    '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.
    Cost-of-living package in Budget won't be as big as previous years, Finance Minister confirms
    Taoiseach says there is a 'roadmap’ to higher Child Benefit for low income families but not in Budget 2025
    Taoiseach denies u-turn on stamp duty for homes bulk-purchased by vulture funds
    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’.
    Chambers to extend bank levy on deposits as part of Budget 2025
    October budget to feature cost-of-living package, says Taoiseach
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