Budget 2021

“It was always going to be a tough budget to get right, particularly when it came to health spending,” said Dr Laura Lenihan, a Galway-based GP who is(...)

The budget, one that deeply involved the Green Party, is probably the greenest in recent history but that is an unsurprising element of an extraordina(...)

Running the State’s new business support scheme will cost the exchequer €40 million a week during the level of restrictions currently in place, budget(...)

A change in Ireland’s taxation scheme for intellectual property (IP) in the budget is being introduced overnight and has come as a surprise to foreign(...)

The budget is “papering over the cracks” again rather than beginning the work of building an Irish national health service that everyone would be prou(...)

If the first instinct of politicians is to throw money at a problem, no Irish government has ever thrown so much money at so big a problem. Tuesday c(...)

A “missed opportunity” is how Simon Fine views the Government’s decision not to announce more budgetary supports for people working remotely from home(...)

Arts and culture are often poor relations at budget-time, barely getting a look in with the big hitters. This year there’s a sense of the wider cultu(...)

I am part of the EPIC group of live entertainment professionals who lobbied ministers for Covid support. We have never really had a direct line of com(...)

The Data Protection Commissioner is getting more than €2 million extra next year, giving the digital privacy watchdog a tenfold increase in funding si(...)