# public-spending - Monday 8 February, 2016
# Cash
# Cash
A new poll shows a division in public opinion on the topic.
# public-spending - Saturday 13 June, 2015
# Sprung A Leak
# Sprung A Leak
They’ve put together a shopping list of demands for any new government.
# public-spending - Friday 12 July, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Despite the growing number of voices criticising austerity as a method to meet deficit targets, the government has indicated there is more to come. This situation can’t continue, writes Rory Hearne.
# public-spending - Tuesday 25 June, 2013
# Cronyism
# Cronyism
Róisín Shortall has called for an end to ‘potential cronyism and secret decision-making around public spending’.
# public-spending - Wednesday 12 June, 2013
# Shut Down
# Shut Down
The Greek government has shut down state broadcaster ERT’s TV and radio stations, with the loss of nearly 3,000 jobs, in order to save money.
# public-spending - Thursday 18 April, 2013
# Budget 2013
# Budget 2013
The government’s revised estimates for public spending in 2012 affirm where the State plans to send its money this year.
# public-spending - Monday 1 October, 2012
# Budget 2013
# Budget 2013
Social Justice Ireland that a €3.5bn budget adjustment can be achieved without cutting social welfare or child benefit.
# public-spending - Thursday 30 August, 2012
# Health Cuts
# Health Cuts
Health service says cuts have to be made before the end of this year if it is to meet budget targets set down by the government and Troika.
# public-spending - Wednesday 22 August, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
Fears over ceding our sovereignty are misplaced – people do it all the time, writes Ronan Lyons. Here’s what we should be focusing on instead.
# public-spending - Monday 25 June, 2012
# Eurozone
# Eurozone
The French finance minister says that his country is looking for between €7bn and €10bn.
# public-spending - Tuesday 17 April, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
Former trader Nick Leeson has an idea to sort out the State coffers – get a bunch of hard-nosed business people to assess the waste and root out value for money.
# public-spending - Tuesday 31 January, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
Our leaders are spending our money in our names, writes Aaron McKenna – so why won’t they let us know how?
# public-spending - Wednesday 7 December, 2011
# Budget 2012
# Budget 2012
From boosting the property market to fuel tax and VAT increases, check out what the front pages have to say about the Budget this morning.
# public-spending - Tuesday 6 December, 2011
Live
Dec 6th 2011, 7:09 PM
# Budget 2012
# Budget 2012
A pictorial representation of Michael Noonan’s Budget 2012 speech, as delivered to Dáil Éireann this afternoon.
# Budget 2012
# Budget 2012
The full text, as prepared in advance, of Michael Noonan’s Budget 2012 speech to the Dáil delivered this afternoon.
# public-spending - Monday 5 December, 2011
# Opinion
# Opinion
Enda Kenny called it a ‘Budget for jobs’ – but the very opposite is the truth. We can expect dole lines to lengthen, writes Michael Taft.
# Budget 2012
# Budget 2012
Part one of Budget 2012 has been delivered by Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Brendan Howlin, here’s what we’ve found out today.
# public-spending - Sunday 4 December, 2011
# Budget 2012
# Budget 2012
The cut will not apply to all child benefit payments – only those for third and subsequent children, according to reports today.
# Budget 2012
# Budget 2012
We spoke to a wide range of TheJournal.ie readers about their hopes and fears for this week’s Budget. Here’s what they had to say.
# public-spending - Saturday 19 November, 2011
# Daily Fix
# Daily Fix
Catch up on the day’s main news as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed…
# public-spending - Sunday 13 November, 2011
# Daily Fix
# Daily Fix
Catch up on the day’s main stories, as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed…
# Budget 2012
# Budget 2012
Property charges, VAT increases and One Parent Family payments: Looking ahead to some of what may feature in next month’s Budget 2012 announcement.
# public-spending - Wednesday 9 November, 2011
# Optimism Bias
# Optimism Bias
A new study from the ESRI says that rail projects typically overestimate their projected passenger levels, while road projects underestimate their traffic growth.
# public-spending - Tuesday 4 October, 2011
# Dáil Éireann
# Dáil Éireann
Gerry Adams accuses Enda Kenny of breaching his own promise about the extent of pay for special advisers.
# public-spending - Monday 12 September, 2011
# Budget
# Budget
An ECB economist suggested Irish public sector pay should be cut. The Tánaiste wasn’t impressed.
# public-spending - Thursday 25 August, 2011
# Public Spending
# Public Spending
Minister Brendan Howlin has asked his cabinet colleagues to submit far-reaching plans to slash spending.
# public-spending - Saturday 30 July, 2011
# Budget 2012
# Budget 2012
The Government has revealed some of the hard-hitting measures it will take in the December Budget and it makes tough reading for some.
# public-spending - Wednesday 27 July, 2011
# Executive Pay
# Executive Pay
Pat Rabbitte asked the heads of the three semi-States under his remit to accept voluntary pay cap of €250,000 a month ago – they still haven’t given him an answer.
# public-spending - Sunday 3 July, 2011
# Cuts
# Cuts
Tánaiste warns further cutbacks are necessary, as government departments reportedly warned of losing up to 15 per cent of their budgets.
# public-spending - Tuesday 26 April, 2011
# Deficit
# Deficit
We’ve managed to beat fellow bailout recipients Greece and Portugal for government deficit in percentage of GDP.
# public-spending - Thursday 14 April, 2011
Live
Apr 14th 2011, 9:24 PM
# public-spending - Saturday 4 December, 2010
# Deficit
# Deficit
Figures released by Department of Finance show forecasts for state income and expenditure in 2010 and 2011.
# public-spending - Thursday 2 September, 2010
# Debt
# Debt
But we’re not out of the woods yet.
# public-spending - Saturday 28 August, 2010
# European Economy
# European Economy
Slashing spending and public sector pay is the only way to recovery, says Jean Claude Trichet.
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