# budget-2012 - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
The 410,000 people in receipt of the weekly €20 allowance will be given the allowance for an extra week.
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# budget-2012 - Sunday 9 December, 2012
Nine Departments and agencies needed extra top-ups to their funding in 2012. Here’s where the overflow went.
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# budget-2012 - Wednesday 5 December, 2012
# budget-2012 - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
The company operated Cullen’s last two Renault dealerships and is believed to owe him €19.5 million.
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# budget-2012 - Tuesday 25 September, 2012
The letter states that, despite ‘many uncertainties’, the date of 2020 remains achievable.
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# budget-2012 - Saturday 8 September, 2012
Labour isn’t happy in Government and Fianna Fáil merely snipe, writes Aaron McKenna. Why shouldn’t our two historically opposed parties get together?
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# budget-2012 - Sunday 19 August, 2012
The nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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# budget-2012 - Friday 10 August, 2012
While consumer confidence is on the increase, Retail Excellence Ireland warns that spending continues to fall.
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# budget-2012 - Friday 20 July, 2012
In its 16 months in office the coalition has by-and-large worked together solidly but will it last all the way until the next general election?
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# budget-2012 - Wednesday 25 April, 2012
The next Stability Programme Update is due out next Monday – but Michael Noonan remains insistent that we’ll meet our targets.
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# budget-2012 - Wednesday 18 April, 2012
The Social Welfare Bill being brought to the Dáil proposes to send single parents onto the dole when their youngest child turns 7.
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# budget-2012 - Wednesday 4 April, 2012
The Irish Sports Council must continue to tighten its belt for the foreseeable future with a further €1.5million reduction on their budget.
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# budget-2012 - Tuesday 3 April, 2012
The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council says the Budget’s projections for economic growth may have been too ambitious.
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# budget-2012 - Wednesday 21 March, 2012
Chancellor George Osborne has also raised the thresholds for income tax and child benefit, as well as hiking excise on cigarettes.
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# budget-2012 - Thursday 15 March, 2012
Irish universities fell out of the top 100 institutions rankings today but, writes Stephen Donnelly TD, without a bold, ambitious vision from Government they’ll never get back into them.
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# budget-2012 - Friday 9 March, 2012
The government promised to cut public sector numbers, increase accountability and improve performance. What’s happened?
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# budget-2012 - Monday 5 March, 2012
Cork South West TD Noel Harrington has shared his Budget 2012 analysis with TheJournal.ie.
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# budget-2012 - Thursday 1 March, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
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# budget-2012 - Saturday 18 February, 2012
The SPARK (Single Parents Acting for the Rights of Kids) group took to the streets against cuts to allowances and schemes.
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# budget-2012 - Thursday 16 February, 2012
TDs vote in favour of the last part of the 2012 Budget, though there is still time for amendments to be made to the Bill.
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# budget-2012 - Wednesday 8 February, 2012
The Tánaiste told a US audience that budgetary measures had come “at a considerable cost to the Irish people”.
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# budget-2012 - Saturday 28 January, 2012
Susan McKay said Budget cuts to Women’s Council funding had made it impossible for her to do her job properly.
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# budget-2012 - Monday 16 January, 2012
Cllr Declan Hurley said institutions making up the “backbone” of rural communities were now all under threat.
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# budget-2012 - Thursday 12 January, 2012
In tonight’s fix: A bad day for jobs, a good day for the government – and for some primary teachers, and which important group want help from JobBridge interns?
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Education minister Ruairí Quinn says he will seek a report on the Budget’s impact on teaching posts in disadvantaged schools.
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# budget-2012 - Monday 9 January, 2012
From 1 February, it will now cost you €55 to have your car deemed road-worthy (or not).
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# budget-2012 - Thursday 5 January, 2012
The Department of Finance says lenders have been told to apply mortgage interest relief with effect from January 1st.
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# budget-2012 - Wednesday 4 January, 2012
Around 700 people have already paid the charge, which came into effect on 1 January, according to the Household Charge Project Board.
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# budget-2012 - Monday 2 January, 2012
From yesterday, former taoisigh are no longer entitled to claim expenses for secretarial work and mobile phones from the state.
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# budget-2012 - Sunday 1 January, 2012
TheJournal.ie’s writers have each picked one thing that they are glad to see the back of – and one thing they are looking forward to this year.
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A number of the measures outlined in the Budget 2012 will kick in today – we take a look at what they are.
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# budget-2012 - Thursday 29 December, 2011
The New Year is just days away but are you looking forward to it?
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# budget-2012 - Friday 23 December, 2011
Retail Excellence Ireland says companies have brought forward planned redundancies before the government cuts redundancy rates.
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Four of the 31 Garda stations that will close next year have had refurbishment works carried out on them in the past 12 months.
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# budget-2012 - Thursday 22 December, 2011
The government is expediting the process to determine what will eventually replace the already controversial household charge.
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The Government is keeping us hooked on house buying exactly when it should be weaning us off, writes Ronan Lyons.
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# budget-2012 - Sunday 18 December, 2011
Satisfaction with the Government has nosedived by ten points in the wake of the Budget, the Sunday Times/Behaviour and Attitudes poll shows.
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# budget-2012 - Saturday 17 December, 2011
People who boycott the annual payment – including several TDs – could see it taken directly from their paychecks or benefits, the Government has confirmed.
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# budget-2012 - Friday 16 December, 2011
The Sinn Féin TD has said that anyone who doesn’t pay the charge should be mindful of legal and financial consequences.
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There are now 14 TDs in total who will not pay the €100 charge when it comes into effect in the New Year.
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