Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman further dampens hopes of 25% cut in childcare costs

Opposition says any tax cut for landlords will not build a single additional home

Budget 2024: Fraught pre-budget negotiations made worse by expected €1bn health overspend

Property industry leaders call for a range of measures to boost supply and lower cost of new homes in pre-budget submissions

Budget 2024: Cabinet Committee on Health to meet on Monday amid speculation that overrun will curtail budget demands made by Stephen Donnelly

Payment is ‘outdated’ and ‘inadequate’, Family Carers of Ireland says

Our history as an underperforming economy means putting the brakes on is not in our psyche. But full employment makes achieving our goals difficult

More than 12,000 homes and commercial properties are vacant across Dublin, new analysis of data by The Irish Times reveals

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil politicians pushing for increases in tax bands and USC cuts in Budget 2024

An increase of up to €12 a week in welfare payments and a lower energy credit also among measures proposed

There will be an additional multibillion euro package of temporary measures to tackle the cost-of-living crisis

Minister insists he is getting balance between spending and saving the current tax windfall right

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Budgetary watchdog issues one of its most scathing attacks on Coalition to date

The creative life isn’t the path to fame and fortune that people might think. Most artists need to rely on a second and even third income stream

Minister has strongly suggested he will make changes to slow exodus of small operators from rental sector

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council appears before Oireachtas committee three weeks before unveiling of budget

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‘We’ll do the very best we can . . . but we won’t be able meet all of the demands that are there,’ says Minister for Finance Michael McGrath in advance of Budget 2024

Conradh na Gaeilge says funding to-date highlights the State’s lack of ambition for the Irish Language and the Gaeltacht.

Paschal Donohoe says adherence to spending limits will address inflationary risk

Minister for Finance says ‘help for people’ will be forthcoming but not all demands will be met

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council adds voice to chorus of warnings about Coalition’s upcoming budget package

Ictu calls for increased taxes and greater investment in key areas during meeting with Ministers

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Decline in consumption in line with general trend towards more moderate drinking, says Ibec group

Regulator says capacity constraints in employment and housing point to moderate growth outlook

Regulator also downgrades growth forecast for Irish economy on back of capacity constraints and tougher monetary conditions

National association of charities outlines problems confronting sector at the launch of its pre-budget submission

Thousands of additional public servants needed to provide improved services, argues business lobby group chief

Those responsible for transforming mental health services will need unflinching Government support

Budget 2024 should focus on improving welfare payments for those in need and on planning for future challenges such as an ageing population and climate change

Umbrella group the Wheel to call for urgent Government action to address problem

Minister of State Niall Collins says scheme may be introduced in response to latest interest rate rise by the European Central Bank

Tánaiste says GRA ballot of confidence in Garda Commissioner sets ‘dangerous precedent’

Government mulls possibility of postponing fuel duty increase as it considers assistance for worst-hit mortgage holders only

Taoiseach says such mortgage interest relief would be ‘prohibitively expensive’ and denies he is out of touch on cost-of-living crisis

Labour Party leader says move would be in line with many other European countries

Social Democrats leader claims people on politicians’ wages had no capacity to understand reality of waiting lists or housing crisis

End Child Poverty Week seminar hears of difficulties in direct provision and generational poverty

Cliff Taylor: Priorities likely to be USC and when taxpayer hits the higher rate

Threshold says such a measure has worked with some success in Portugal

Minister for Public Expenditure on keeping a surplus, RTÉ funding and ‘case for centrism’ amid budget wrangling

Minister for Finance says ‘Ireland isn’t bulletproof’ from the current global economic downturn

Managers say ‘chronic underfunding’ means many schools are struggling to provide heat, lighting and water in schools

On October 10th, Michael McGrath could stand up in the Dáil and release 40,000 Irish children from the prison of poverty

Tax reform and cuts to Universal Social Charge among measures discussed in advance of 2024 Budget

Minister notes USC has been reduced in the past, says he is ‘committed to safety in public finances’

Budget 2024: Children’s Rights Alliance calls for hiring of 90 additional education welfare officers