04/01/2013 - 07:40 AM
Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said that confidence is coming back into the Irish economy.
19/12/2012 - 06:24 PM
Labour has today denied that party leader Eamon Gilmore plans to remove any of the six rebel TDs and Senators from the party. ...
19/12/2012 - 03:29 PM
Labour could be set to lose another member of its Parliamentary Party today.
14/12/2012 - 07:58 AM
Deputy leader of the Labour Party Joan Burton has said that she regrets the decision of former Party Chairman Colm Keaveney ...
13/12/2012 - 02:14 PM
The Galway East TD Colm Keaveney has voted against the social welfare bill. 
13/12/2012 - 08:33 AM
TDs and Ministers will vote later on whether to implement some of the most controversial cuts to social welfare payments ...
11/12/2012 - 11:56 AM
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said that Labour TDs have described the Budget as "a disaster for them".
11/12/2012 - 11:46 AM
Hundreds of family carers are heading to the Dáil this afternoon to voice their outrage at Budget 2013.
11/12/2012 - 09:59 AM
Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton has said that Budget 2013 is as balanced and fair as it can be.
10/12/2012 - 03:51 PM
Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte said today that rebel Labour backbenchers knew from the start how tough the recent Budget ...
09/12/2012 - 12:36 PM
The chairman of the Labour Party has called on the Government to row back on cuts to child benefit announced in Budget 2013. ...
09/12/2012 - 11:18 AM
The Pyrite Action Group has said the property tax announced in the Budget "adds insult to injury" for homeowners who bought ...
08/12/2012 - 01:37 PM
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said his party would table a motion of no confidence in the Government next week.
08/12/2012 - 10:50 AM
About 3,500 jobs are to be cut from the health service next year.
08/12/2012 - 10:14 AM
SIPTU has said the Government can generate €125m extra for the exchequer next year through the earlier introduction of a ...
07/12/2012 - 02:09 PM
European Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton said today that the Government has no choice but to proceed with implementing ...
07/12/2012 - 08:57 AM
The Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar says he does not believe there are any mistakes in the budget.
07/12/2012 - 08:35 AM
Former Labour Junior Minister Roisín Shortall believes Budget 2013 will be very damaging for the party.
07/12/2012 - 07:11 AM
Around 100 family carers will gather outside the Dáil this afternoon to protest over the cut to their respite care grant.
06/12/2012 - 06:42 PM
The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is indicating there will not be any U-turn on the issue of respite care grants.
06/12/2012 - 02:53 PM
The Government's under increasing pressure to reverse the €325 cut to the respite care grant announced in yesterday's Budget. ...
06/12/2012 - 12:23 PM
The Minister for Transport says the Budget 'isn't an a la carte menu'.
06/12/2012 - 11:02 AM
Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has today refused to deal with calls for a reversal of the cut to respite care grants, ...
06/12/2012 - 10:58 AM
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has today defended €3.5bn in austerity cuts and tax hikes announced in yesterday's Budget.
06/12/2012 - 10:16 AM
Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin has said that it is very difficult to be a Labour Minister during austerity, ... 
06/12/2012 - 09:29 AM
Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has admitted that yesterday's Budget will make the Coalition "even more unpopular than we ...
06/12/2012 - 08:32 AM
Students' representatives have accused the Government of going against their promises to support life-long learning..
06/12/2012 - 07:03 AM
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has moved to calm nervous Labour backbenchers, who are worried that taxes on wealth have not featured ...
05/12/2012 - 08:55 PM
In the latest austerity onslaught, just weeks before Christmas, the Government has cut child benefits, tripled prescription ...
05/12/2012 - 08:20 PM
No backbenchers have defected on the first vote in Budget 2013.
05/12/2012 - 08:02 PM
The Irish Pharmacy Union has reacted angrily to the announcement to treble the cost of prescription fees for patients and ...
05/12/2012 - 07:58 PM
Michael Noonan’s measured, almost subdued tone belied some swingeing blows for families, wealthier older people and workers ...
05/12/2012 - 07:46 PM
The first vote on Budget 2013 is underway in the Dáil.
05/12/2012 - 07:39 PM
The Vintners Federation of Ireland has said 10c increase on the price of a pint will cost up to 10,000 jobs in the sector.
05/12/2012 - 07:31 PM
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says the cuts and new taxes announced in today's budget will have an effect on ...
05/12/2012 - 06:50 PM
The Social Protection Minister Joan Burton is rejecting claims Budget 2013 is anti-women and anti-children.
05/12/2012 - 06:17 PM
Some scuffles have broken out this evening between protestors and Gardaí at Leinster House.
05/12/2012 - 05:54 PM
Twenty thousand pensioners are to lose their full medical card and receive a GP visit card instead.
05/12/2012 - 05:42 PM
Irish Farmers Association president John Bryan said the measures in Budget 2013, including changes to PRSI, will put some ...
05/12/2012 - 05:24 PM
The Small Firms Association have welcomed the fact that the Government has not increased the direct cost of employment to ...
05/12/2012 - 05:00 PM
Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty said the budget implements the same failed policies that were seen when Fianna Fáil were in power. ...
05/12/2012 - 04:39 PM
Director General of business group IBEC Danny McCoy has welcoming the budget saying the Government should be congratulated.
05/12/2012 - 04:25 PM
Fianna Fáil is accusing the Labour Party of capitulating to Fine Gael demands by not increasing tax on those with high incomes. ...
05/12/2012 - 03:47 PM
Ireland is emerging from its economic crisis, Finance Minister Michael Noonan declared as Budget 13, the sixth austerity ... 
05/12/2012 - 03:28 PM
Minister Brendan Howlin has announced an end to the unvouched expenses system.
05/12/2012 - 03:25 PM
There will be no cuts to weekly social welfare payments.
05/12/2012 - 03:20 PM
Minister Brendan Howlin said the Department of Jobs budget will be above half a billion euro and an additional €139m will ...
05/12/2012 - 03:19 PM
An additional €1bn in cuts to the pay and pensions bill must be achieved, Minister Brendan Howlin said.
05/12/2012 - 03:09 PM
There will be an increase across all catergories of motor tax and VRT.
05/12/2012 - 03:04 PM
There will be an increase of 10c on a pint of beer or cider from midnight, a hike of 10c on a measure of spirits and a bottle ...
05/12/2012 - 03:02 PM
The household charge will cease from January 2013.
05/12/2012 - 02:57 PM
The property tax will be in effect from July 1 2013, Minister Noonan said.
05/12/2012 - 02:53 PM
Minister Michael Noonan has abolished the weekly PRSI allowance for workers, increasing the minimum level of annual contribution ...
05/12/2012 - 02:48 PM
Ireland's new estimate deficit will be 8.2% - well inside the 8.6% limit in the Troika agreement, Minister Noonan said.
05/12/2012 - 02:40 PM
Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed the lower 9% VAT rate is to remain for 2013.
05/12/2012 - 02:32 PM
Minister Michael Noonan is bringing forward a 10 point tax plan for Small and Medium Enterprises.
05/12/2012 - 02:30 PM
Minister Michael Noonan is on his feet and has started delivering his speech for Budget 2013.
05/12/2012 - 01:54 PM
As Ireland braces itself for its sixth austerity budget since the economic crisis began, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has pledged ...
05/12/2012 - 12:39 PM
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said today that the only alternative to the property tax in today's Budget is to increase income tax.
05/12/2012 - 12:33 PM
Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said that there will be "loads of good things" in today's Budget.
05/12/2012 - 11:08 AM
There were 1,500 less people signing on the Live Register on seasonally-adjusted basis in November 2012, official figures ...
05/12/2012 - 10:06 AM
Labour Party Chairman Colm Keaveney has not ruled out voting against today's Budget.
05/12/2012 - 08:54 AM
Employers group IBEC is today urging the Government not to introduce any measures in the Budget which would increase the ...
05/12/2012 - 08:23 AM
Campaigners have warned today that if a property tax is introduced in today's Budget, it will be boycotted in the same way ...
05/12/2012 - 07:09 AM
Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin made the final, official sign-off on cuts ...
05/12/2012 - 07:04 AM
Ireland is today bracing itself for its sixth austerity Budget in four years.
04/12/2012 - 06:07 PM
As Ireland braces itself for its sixth austerity Budget in four years, Taoiseach Enda Kenny gave one last assurance it will ...
04/12/2012 - 05:28 PM
Tax revenues have fallen behind target, it has been revealed, as Finance Minister Michael Noonan prepares to present Budget ...
04/12/2012 - 03:13 PM
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Leo Varadkar has said that tomorrow's Budget is "not going to be the toughest" ...
04/12/2012 - 02:27 PM
Finance expert Brian Lucey is describing as "insanity" the payment of €3.1bn for the Anglo promissory notes in March 2013, ...
04/12/2012 - 01:53 PM
Fianna Fáil says the failure of the Health Minister James Reilly to attract the support of his cabinet colleagues will lead ...
04/12/2012 - 10:03 AM
An end to crippling tax hikes and tough spending cuts will be nearly in sight following the Budget, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore ...
04/12/2012 - 09:21 AM
The Minister for Education says he is satisfied with the cuts he has made in his own department.
04/12/2012 - 08:29 AM
Don't tax employment on budget day.
04/12/2012 - 07:16 AM
The cost of taxing the family car could soon top €500 a year.
03/12/2012 - 04:55 PM
Government Ministers have insisted their embattled Cabinet colleague James Reilly has full support from the Coalition despite ...
03/12/2012 - 12:22 PM
New figures have today shown a rise in consumer sentiment.
03/12/2012 - 11:23 AM
The Minister for Sport has defended a decision to give his local soccer club a €200,000 grant.
03/12/2012 - 08:23 AM
IBEC has warned the Government that any hike in costs to employers in Budget 2013 will force more companies out of business. ...
03/12/2012 - 02:09 AM
With just over two days to go until Budget Day, a senior Government Minister has revealed that core social welfare payments ...
02/12/2012 - 07:43 PM
There has been some good news for sports today - with the announcement that the government is to invest €26 million in local ...
02/12/2012 - 03:26 PM
The Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has said the Property Tax is a good idea.
02/12/2012 - 12:43 PM
Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O’Brien has accused Micheál Martin of "cynical opportunism" in opposing the Property Tax which his ...
02/12/2012 - 11:24 AM
The Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has said the Coalition has reached agreement on next year's Budget.
02/12/2012 - 09:57 AM
As the Cabinet puts the finishing touches to the Budget, Fianna Fáil is making a last ditch plea to the Government not to ...
01/12/2012 - 06:54 PM
New figures released by the Department of Finance this evening show that the Government's tax take is €210m below target ...
01/12/2012 - 06:04 PM
A new opinion poll suggests a significant drop in support for Fine Gael in the past month as the abortion controversy rolled ...
01/12/2012 - 04:02 PM
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said that difficult decisions will be made in relation to the Budget but he is hopeful that people ...
01/12/2012 - 01:56 PM
Social Protection Minister Joan Burton has said that the remaining sticking points in Budget negotiations relate to health, ...
01/12/2012 - 12:40 PM
A protest against austerity and the property tax march will take place in Limerick this lunchtime.
01/12/2012 - 09:34 AM
A body representing the food and beverage sector is warning the government not to introduce Budget measures that will add ...
01/12/2012 - 08:35 AM
The Department of Finance has released its ...
30/11/2012 - 03:08 PM
The Food and Drink sector has warned that measures in the Budget that increase grocery prices will damage prospects for recovery ...
30/11/2012 - 01:03 PM
Sinn Féin says the latest budget leaks about cuts to child benefit shows the coalition is "planning to go after children".
30/11/2012 - 11:30 AM
Vintners are calling for the introduction of a 15% tax on alcohol sold in supermarkets and off licences.
30/11/2012 - 10:43 AM
The Troika would have to agree with any reduced savings target in the Budget, a former deputy director of the IMF has said.
30/11/2012 - 08:11 AM
More than 800 junior doctors have written to the Minister for Health James Reilly warning that they are prepared to exit ...
30/11/2012 - 07:14 AM
Child benefit is to be cut by €10 in next week's Budget while bills for medical card holders are set to increase with a doubling ...
29/11/2012 - 08:54 PM
With less then a week to go until Budget Day, it is understood that the Cabinet is considering introducing a property tax ...
29/11/2012 - 06:10 PM
Social welfare and child benefit rates must be maintained before the deepening divisions in society are embedded, it was ...
