# budget - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
The ‘two-pack’ also means the Budget will have to be submitted to Brussels for its approval every October from now on.
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# budget - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
EU leaders agreed to hold further discussions on agreeing a budget for the next seven years as well as plugging a shortfall in this year’s finances following negotiations, chaired by Ireland, in Brussels.
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# budget - Thursday 25 April, 2013
IFTA Rising Star winner, Gerard Barrett, says people in Ireland don’t talk enough about how they feel – which can lead to tragedy. In making his award-winning movie, Pilgrim Hill, for just €4500, he lifted the lid on loneliness experienced by country farmers.
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# budget - Monday 22 April, 2013
This is a game changer folks.
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# budget - Thursday 18 April, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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The government’s revised estimates for public spending in 2012 affirm where the State plans to send its money this year.
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# budget - Monday 15 April, 2013
The mobility grant gave me and my husband the chance to lead independent lives, with dignity, writes Miriam Murphy, who says this government are chipping away at the help for people with disabilities.
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# budget - Thursday 11 April, 2013
Jerome Cahuzac, who has been charged with tax fraud over an offshore bank account, says he can’t stay in one place for long.
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# budget - Thursday 21 March, 2013
A report published by the Public Accounts Committee said that it is clear that we are still paying than other OECD countries.
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# budget - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
Jerome Cahuzac allegedly used a Swiss bank account to hide assets from the tax authorities.
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# budget - Thursday 7 March, 2013
The Finance Minister said yesterday that there is no unidentified source that the government can tap for funding to help close the deficit.
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# budget - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
EU finance ministers are meeting in Brussels today to ratify proposals contained in the two-pack, a series of financial governance measures, which the Minister said would mean an earlier budget.
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# budget - Friday 1 March, 2013
Analysts say that the cuts, due to come into force overnight, will take a number of months to take effect and will see growth fall by as much as 0.7 per cent.
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# budget - Thursday 21 February, 2013
The Government says it is prioritising young peoples’ mental health while, at the same time, cutting the role of counsellors, writes Gerry Flynn.
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# budget - Monday 18 February, 2013
However, the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny says it’s too early to predict the promissory note impact on Budget 2014.
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# budget - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
Olli Rehn has written to EU ministers indicating an openness to delaying austerity measures on a case-by-case basis.
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# budget - Tuesday 12 February, 2013
5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.
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# budget - Monday 11 February, 2013
A significant drop in December took economists by surprise but confidence levels now appear to have stabilised.
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# budget - Friday 8 February, 2013
# budget - Monday 4 February, 2013
He is joining the other three Presidents of the EU РHerman Van Rompuy, Jos̩ Manuel Barroso and Martin Schulz.
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# budget - Friday 25 January, 2013
Hot beverages and home and giftware sectors saw noticeable increases while furniture and flooring suffered losses.
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# budget - Thursday 17 January, 2013
We tend to think of ‘high earners’ as being those with salaries above €100,000 – but the figures reveal a different story, writes Micheál Collins.
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the final 2012 ‘What’s Left’ tracker series conducted by the Irish league of Credit Unions shows 61% of people have €100 or less left at the end of the month once essential bills are paid.
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# budget - Thursday 10 January, 2013
Age Action said that a cut in the Seniors Alert Scheme “is a bad decision” with “terrible timing”, given recent attacks on elderly people.
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The Irish Medical Organisation said that budget cuts ‘could end the capacity to introduce universal GP care’.
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# budget - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
As many as 1,400 serving Gardaà may have to be be cut in response to budget cuts.
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# budget - Monday 24 December, 2012
Unlike 2011 this was not a year of any seismic shifts in Irish politics but there were plenty of stand-out moments which will have repercussions going into next year and most of them involved one man…
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# budget - Friday 21 December, 2012
Both pieces of legislation will now go to President Michael D Higgins to be signed into law.
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A new survey also showed that only 9 per cent of people will buy Irish this festive season.
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# budget - Thursday 20 December, 2012
Crowds gathered today to protest against job and benefit cuts as well as the tax increases passed today.
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# budget - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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The Labour Party spokesperson on Transport, Tourism and Sport Heffernan has resigned the whip.
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# budget - Monday 17 December, 2012
Pro-life group the Life Institute said that James Connolly “must be turning in his grave”.
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# budget - Sunday 16 December, 2012
In a letter to a Sinn Féin TD, one teacher said the government have no understanding of how further education works.
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# budget - Saturday 15 December, 2012
Breaking via The Mire wire: Kerry priest tells children there is no God; Government pledge to help homeowners become homeless; Craig Doyle = why?
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# budget - Friday 14 December, 2012
The Labour Leader says it isn’t “tenable” to have a party Chairman outside of the parliamentary ranks.
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Lisa Domican is an award-winning entrepreneur, and also a carer to two autistic teenagers. It’s clear which the Government values more, she writes.
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# budget - Thursday 13 December, 2012
The Labour TD described the budget as a “conflict of ideologies” and said the issue was one of proportionality with Labour making up only one third of government.
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Keaveney will be booted from the Labour parliamentary party after voting against cuts to respite care grants.
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TDs vote today on whether to lower the monthly payment for the first three children to €130. How would you vote?
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