Michael McGrath

Sinn Féin’s TikTok savvy and laser-like focus on housing appears to be reaping rewards, while other political parties are also rolling out strategies to try to attract the youth vote

Kevin Bakhurst to unveil strategic vision after weekend in document setting out ‘new direction’ for organisation

European Court of Justice advocate general’s findings has sent shockwaves from Dublin to Silicon Valley

Budget tax measures aren’t meaningful enough for many small landlords to stick out the storm

Helen McEntee has previously indicated her intention to replace laws which date back up to 200 years with the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2023

Move reduces the State’s holding in AIB to 40.8%

Cabinet will also hear that a funding scheme will be opened for farmers in Shannon Callows whose fodder was badly damaged by extreme weather

Share will increase the amount that AIB has paid back of its €20.8 billion rescue to about €13.6 billion, with Government’s remaining stake in bank valued at about €4.3 billion

The lagged effects of higher interest rates have triggered a slowdown but so far employment and wages are holding up

Not for the first time in 2023, receipts from the tax on company profits have dropped precipitously

Third straight month of decline means total corporation tax take now running lower for the year to date

Sinn Féin’s spokeswoman on enterprise warns recovering money still owed under the scheme “will be a balancing act”

Is cash a spent force or are we in danger of rushing headlong into the virtual alternatives with no thought to the consequences?

Irish Small and Medium-sized Enterprise association warns on costs

Minister for Finance signs order halving levy on all motor policies to 1% from January 1st

Owners can borrow up to €75,000 for energy efficiency upgrades, underpinned by European funds

AIB set to see its levy jump to almost €100m next year from an annual charge of €37m in recent times

Companies will be liable to pay a new top-up tax from next year

Think tank also claims money being set aside in two new State funds is modest in context of record €22.6bn corporate tax haul

Levy legislation to take up roughly half of Government’s Finance Bill, which is to be published on Thursday

Taken together, measures contained in last week’s budget will increase household income but housing measures are expected to keep upward pressure on prices

State’s competitiveness requires review of corporate tax, simplification of its system, the backing of innovation, and investment in infrastructure and climate measures

Housing is the biggest problem facing the State, and this Government’s budget interventions are contradictory and short-sighted

Week of numerical activities across island starts this weekend

The stability message is unlikely to wash with 20-somethings stuck living at home

Revenue aims to introduce real-time digital reporting for VAT, supported by electronic invoicing

Government insiders fear ‘flat’ Budget 2024 will not move the dial as internal tensions within the Coalition rise

Radio: Liveline’s stand-in host hears foster parents speak of strain, while Pat Kenny shows his wonky side

Budget 2024: McGrath’s creation of two new long-term investment funds places significant obstacle in way of future finance ministers who might be tempted to splurge for political reasons

Minister tells insurers at conference to pass on benefits of sector reforms to consumers

Sinn Féin leader says Donnelly was ‘thrown under the bus’ while Taoiseach accuses SF of being ‘seriously high tax’ party

Budget 2024: Focus also falls on landlord tax and the absence of further retrofit support, while businesses struggle to find good news

Dominic Coyle of The Irish Times and Máiread Harbron from PwC answered readers’ questions in our post-budget live blog which has now finished. You can read back on all the questions and answers below.

Tax cuts costing €1.1bn in the first budget presented by a Fianna Fáil Minister for Finance since 2010

Budget 2024 was framed for the archetypal family unit of middle Ireland

In the News podcast: Conor Pope gives the consumer view, Jack Horgan-Jones on the politics of it all

Ministers also unveil plan which will see billions of euro in windfall corporation tax saved for when they are needed in the future

Kildare Street was en fete all day long with crowd-control barriers but no sign of protesters

Sinn Féin says Coalition produced ‘budget for landlords’ while teaching bodies say it will not address recruitment and retention challenges

Budget 2024 includes extra funding to improve female participation in sports