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BUDGET 2025 PLEDGES multiple supports for families with double Child Benefit payments and a €420 ‘baby boost’ payment for the birth of a child.
Free access to public transport will also be available for children aged five to eight, with free school books initiative also being extended to all senior-cycle pupils.
Single people with no families might ask, what’s in this budget for me?
The Journal put that question to Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe today, who defended the budget, stating that there are measures for that cohort of people.
Minister Paschal Donohoe responds to criticism that there's not much in the Budget for single people, those who don't have children and those who don't own their own home. #Budget2025 pic.twitter.com/BHUxqJ1mcC
— TheJournal.ie (@thejournal_ie) October 1, 2024
He said the increase in the Rent Credit to €1,000 for next year and increasing it by €250 for this year “is going up to help those with the cost of renting and if they’re working they are going to benefit from the tax changes we are making in personal taxation”.
The Standard Rate Cut Off point for PAYE workers has been increased by €2,000 to €44,000, with proportionate increases for married couples and civil partners.
The middle rate of USC has been cut from 4% to 3%, with the entry level increasing by €1,622 to €27,382.
“If you’re a single person on the average wage in our country we are getting closer and closer to the point that you are no longer paying the higher rate of tax on that income,” said Donohoe.
Taoiseach Simon Harris has said his party wants the threshold to pay the higher rate in tax to be €50,000, stating that his will be in the party’s election manifesto.
“So those kind of changes will benefit those kind of workers and citizens,” he added.
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That has to be the longest article I didn’t read.
@Jason Ebbs: exactly what they want. The headline will stick in your mind though.
Seaspiracy on Netflix.
Stunned…..
https://g.co/kgs/Us1NVr
@Mark O’Donohoe: just watched this – no more fish for me!
@Patricia: pretty sad but to be honest if you watch any documentary on industrial farmed produce from any source (meet, poultry, fish) you would be left wondering what you would feel comfortable eating.
@John Egan: vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds and very happy and healthy doing so
@Aedín: im sure it is, would 6 billion people be able to do the same
@Mark O’Donohoe: I haven’t eaten a morsel of meat or fish since I watched that, followed by conspiracy. I’m done.
Can we not have the small Irish boat as a symbol on fish products, like the guaranteed Irish symbol.
Give people the choice to pay a bit more for a more sustainable fishing method.
Ultimately, only a boycott on fish will force the fishing industry and government to implement changes.
@Ian Downes: that’s an ideal solution. Sadly the industry is anything but ideal. Cant see it happening unless the whole industry as it is collapses.
The fishing industry is always left behind. Lost most of the rights coming into Europe because we didn’t know/ want what we had.
Now, an advanced society realise what we let go.
Totally overfishing by everyone. The negotiations come up every December and the only sector that looses out every year are the fish
Great article
I see this rag isn’t happy the EU have started to plunder our waters.
@HonestGrump: The plundering of our waters began a long time ago
Last year decided to go “meet free Mondays” where I’d have veg only… apparently a kilo of meat uses like a thousand litres of water. Then moved to “fish free Fridays” as I knew about over fishing. Will I have a world changing impact? Probably not..but if I can help a lil bit, without drastically changing my life? I’ll give it go!
(This is coming from a prepper btw)
@The Kev in Kevlar: you need to learn how to spell before you can comment. The standard of English and commentators is very poor on this website. Including reporters. Just take moment reread and then publish
@The Kev in Kevlar: as they say.. lots of people doing they’re best imperfectly rather than a few doing things perfectly
@Aedín: **** their best
@Keith Rankin: hahaha you come at me for spelling rather that my point? Eat you troll food and go back under your bridge…try harder next time darling
@Aedín: underrated comment, full credit
Dont eat fish tis full of plastic.
Also, after Fukushima went (literally) nuclear, the sheer amount of chemicals is the Pacific,now leaching into the Atlantic has jumped a lot…
Seaspiracy on Netflix well worth a look. I won’t be eating fish anymore. The impact fishing is having on stocks, other animals and even the climate is substantial. Very long article but very good!
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