The next Irish government should commit an extra €10bn to infrastructure projects, business representatives have urged.

Almost 60% of companies will give their staff pay raises in 2015 and just 1% will cut pay, according to a survey.

THE image of Frank Flannery stalking the corridors of Leinster House wandering in and out of ministers’ offices, having a word in their ear, is one that in many ways defines the problem of lobbying in Irish society.

The Government has been given a firm warning from Europe to stick to its plans to make €3.1bn of savings in the Budget.

IBEC's call for no tax increases in next year's Budget will only "insulate the rich", SIPTU warned today.

Employment levels in Ireland rose last year – the first annual jobs total increase witnessed since 2008, according to a leading business group.

IBEC is calling for the creation of a new state-backed investment bank.

Homeowners will be €700 better off each year, a new report has revealed.

Knockrea House is the business — and in more ways than one.

The newly established Oireachtas Sub-Committee on the EU Fiscal Treaty will continue its week-long discussions on the Fiscal Treaty today.

The Government is being called on by the Irish Business and Employers Confederation to do more to get the domestic economy back on track.

CASH available for discretionary spending by households with mortgages will increase by 6.5% this year, as a result of ECB interest rate cuts, according to the Irish Business and Employers Confederation.

The Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) has today called for a radical new approach to how child benefit payments are made.

The Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) has said that Irish workers need to further develop foreign language skills if the country to avoid missing out on foreign direct investment.

Absenteeism is costing business around €1.5bn with workers missing almost six days on average a year, a survey has claimed.

ALCOHOL has been blamed by employers as the primary reason for 4% of short-term absence from work by their male employees and 1% by female employees, in a survey by employers’ body IBEC.

Business chiefs have predicted the cost of living will fall after the rate of inflation remained steady for the last three months.

Outgoing senior minister Mary Hanafin is hitting out at the criticism of ministers travelling overseas for St Patrick's Day.

The Government will try to finalise a deal with Independent TDs Michael Lowry and Jackie Healy Rae today to pass key Budget votes in the Dáil tomorrow night, after "Intensive discussions" at the weekend aimed at securing their support.

The bail-out deal negotiated by the Government amounts to a national sell-out that will leave the country crippled with debt, opposition politicians claimed.

The employers' group IBEC says there is no further scope to increase tax for high-income earners in the next Budget, but it wants more low-paid workers to be brought into the tax net.

IRISH workers struggling to cope with savage cutbacks, pay freezes and rising taxes have been told there is no opportunity of any salary increases until at least 2013.

Air traffic controllers tonight threatened to repeat the massive disruption which grounded more than 150 flights in and out of Ireland.

Business chiefs have hit out at today's proposed work stoppage by air traffic controllers, claiming it is unjustified and will damage the country’s image.

The Irish Business and Employers Confederation has described today's Budget as a "turning point".

Fears about the economy may have been overcooked, business leaders claimed today.

SIPTU has no intention of scrapping the renewal of its mandate for industrial action in the face of Government-backed cutbacks, while the group representing business has said pay rises in 2010 are unrealistic.

The Irish electorate put their country ahead of anger at the Government in backing the Lisbon Treaty, it was claimed today.

Former Bank of Ireland governor Richard Burrows is to become chairman of global tobacco giant British American Tobacco (BAT), it was announced today.

THE Irish Forest and Forest Products Association (IFFPA) has been officially launched by Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Tony Killeen at Confederation House, the head office of the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC), in Dublin.

THE supplementary budget was “savage and a missed opportunity” which will do nothing to stimulate enterprise or help keep people in jobs, the Irish Small & Medium Enterprises Association (ISME) charged yesterday.

The Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) has broadly welcomed the emergency Budget announced in the Dáil today.

THE Construction Industry Federation (CIF) yesterday wrote to the Government claiming 55,000 jobs would be put at risk in the industry if reports were correct that capital investment was to be cut by €2 billion.

The Government tonight announced a revised bank recapitalisation, pumping €7bn into Allied Irish Bank and Bank of Ireland.

A €10bn initiative to shore up Ireland’s banking sector was underway today.

The Government tonight announced a €10bn fund to recapitalise the country's financial institutions.

Private sector unions are to lodge immediate claims for a rise of €30 a week for low-paid workers after the collapse of the national pay talks last weekend.

The Irish Business and Employers Confederation is sowing the seeds of serious industrial unrest by urging its members not to negotiate with workers on pay and conditions, trade union Mandate warned today.

Retail trade union Mandate today blamed employers groups for sowing the seeds of serious industrial unrest over the collapse of the national pay talks.

TRADE unions are likely to start bombarding private employers with separate pay claims if the social partnership talks do not yield increases in the coming days.

Businesses will be urged today to learn how to measure and reduce their carbon footprint and help the global fight against climate change.

A lobby group of the country’s leading employers has urged a ‘yes’ vote for the Lisbon Reform Treaty to secure huge investment from US companies for Ireland.

The Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) has today welcomed the launch of the Department of Transport’s consultation document on sustainable travel and transport.

THE director of Waterford Institute of Technology said yesterday that weekend leaks and remarks by politicians do not represent setbacks in the institute’s campaign for university designation.