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Reliance on one-off measures leaves households exposed to increasing cost of living, warns SVP The Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVP) says the Budget has made a number of…

Rose Barrett Commentators are united in agreeing that Budget ’24 will contain a rise in social welfare and old age pensions,  a reduction in the universal social charge (USC) of at least…

Irish MEP Colm Markey, is urging the Irish Government to introduce an initiative that would see a Culture and Media card worth €200, presented to every young person on their…

ALONE has called on the government  to make urgent investments now in Budget 2024 that will make Ireland a country that is fair and just to our older population  into…

Alex Greaney Labour Councillor, Peter O’Brien, has urged Government to provide clarity to all hoping to make use of the publicly funded IVF programme introduced by Government in Budget 2023.…

Minister for Health. Stephen Donnelly announced last Monday that public in-patient charges are immediately abolished in all public hospitals, writes Rose Barrett. The Health (Amendment) Act 2023 removes the acute public…

Dublin parents are set to save thousands of euros per year with a substantial reduction in childcare fees, which kicks in today as Budget measures take effect, a Fine Gael Senator…

Last week saw councillors agree Fingal’s budget for 2023, a total of €333m, an increase of 11 per cent on last year.  After 10 hours in chamber, councillors debated and…

Roderic O’Gorman, Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth today announced a landmark €1.025 billion in funding under Budget 2023 for early learning and care and school aged childcare.…

As predicted last week, Budget 2023 was mostly a Giveaway Budget in an effort to deal with the dual threat of rising inflation and the runaway cost of energy bills…