Budget 2021

Business groups have broadly welcomed the measures in Budget 2021, saying the package of supports would help many businesses cope with the worrying do(...)

Kevin Monaghan lives with his wife Mairéad in Lifford, Co Donegal, currently the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic in the State. Mr Monaghan (74) a(...)

The Minister for Public Expenditure Michael McGrath, in announcing its largest budget ever on Tuesday, prefaced his remarks by saying that the billion(...)

The construction of an additional 593 social homes is planned next year as part of the €5.2 billion budget allocation to the Department of Housing. M(...)

The Government did what it had to do in the budget – announced that it would continue to pump billions of euro into the economy next year to fight the(...)

The state pension age will not rise to 67 next January, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Michael McGrath confirmed in his budget speech(...)

The Pandemic Unemployment Payment now being received by more than 200,000 people will be reviewed in January, Minister for Social Protection Heather H(...)

Budget 2021 repeats a pattern of behaviour that has marked the Government since it took power of being “indecisive, unprepared and too slow to act”, S(...)

The Government is to put in place hundreds of new hospital beds, millions of additional home support hours and up to 16,000 extra staff on foot of the(...)

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe said he plans to set up an equity fund to invest in “high innovation” Irish companies, in order to boost supports(...)