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Budget

budget 2026

Cautious Budget on the cards as ministers rule out spending and tax decisions that create new risks

Updated 4 Apr

15.4k

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

11.7k

start planning now

Financial analyst: Five ways your finances could change in 2025

Ralph Benson

1 Jan

14.8k

budget 2025

These are the Budget 2025 measures that will take effect from today

1 Jan

66.1k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A tax accountant on €100K living in Wicklow

TheJournal.ie reader

10 Nov 2024

34.6k

United Kingdom

Warnings of spending cuts and tax increases precede Labour Government's budget announcement

29 Oct 2024

9.6k

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

74.4k

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budget 2025

Up to 100 new speed cameras will be rolled out during 2025

3 Oct 2024

20.8k

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

7.9k

Boom to Bust

Watchdog warns €9.1bn bonanza Budget ‘repeats Ireland's past mistakes'

2 Oct 2024

11.2k

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

Budget2025

Single working woman: 'This budget just flat out ignored anyone without a family and a home'

Single woman

1 Oct 2024

23.9k

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

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

93.8k

in your pocket

Here's what Budget 2025 means for your payslip if you're earning €20,000

1 Oct 2024

15.9k

Leaving Cert

The free schoolbooks scheme is being extended again (and booksellers aren't delighted)

1 Oct 2024

6.6k

Public Transport

Free public transport for children under nine and companions for over-70s

Updated 1 Oct 2024

8.7k

budget 2025

Pension, jobseeker's, carer's and disability allowances to increase by €12 per week

1 Oct 2024

73.6k

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

home ownership

Help-to-buy scheme extended as Stamp Duty for €1.5m homes rises

1 Oct 2024

7.2k

budget 2025

Women affected by CervicalCheck failures given exemption from taxes on payments and investments

1 Oct 2024

6.0k

budget 2025

Student contribution fee set to be cut by €1,000 in Budget

1 Oct 2024

26.4k

companion pass

Over 70s to be allowed bring loved one or friend on public transport for free

1 Oct 2024

210k

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

€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

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budget 2025

Ministers play down reports of Budget rows as talks between coalition leaders continue

Updated 29 Sep 2024

15.7k

White Paper

Department of Finance’s ‘White Paper’ ahead of Budget confirms €25 billion surplus

28 Sep 2024

11.8k

Money Money Money

Budget 2025: Everything we know so far about what to expect

28 Sep 2024

33.9k

Alternative Budget

Sinn Féin budget, not Govt's, would benefit average worker by €1,000, claims Pearse Doherty

Updated 26 Sep 2024

8.8k

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

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

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Childcare

Taoiseach says there is a 'roadmap’ to higher Child Benefit for low income families but not in Budget 2025

Updated 17 Sep 2024

10.6k

The Budget

Taoiseach denies u-turn on stamp duty for homes bulk-purchased by vulture funds

9 Sep 2024

12.2k

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

Banking

Chambers to extend bank levy on deposits as part of Budget 2025

27 Aug 2024

15.1k

budget 2025

October budget to feature cost-of-living package, says Taoiseach

7 Aug 2024

39.7k

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