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Parties will make a raft of pledges during the election campaign - but voters would be wise to be sceptical about their delivery
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Budget 2025: Government to earmark cash from carbon levy to ease fuel poverty
Budget 2025 main points: Energy credits, bonus welfare payments, higher minimum wage and tax changes
USC cut to 3%; extra credits for renters; 10,000 new social homes to built and free public transport for under-9s
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Double-digit rise in tax on fuel needed to curb carbon emissions
Dublin Economics Workshop hears call for shift from ownership taxes such as VRT and motor tax towards usage taxes such as excise duty on fuels and congestion charges
Ireland will have highest diesel taxes in EU after Budget 2025, says industry group
Cost of increases will fall on people in border region, says Fuels for Ireland, due to differential in prices between Republic and Northern Ireland
The cows are smaller, hardier and more efficient: Inside a ‘climate-neutral’ Irish dairy farm
FarmZeroC wants its approach to be deployed across thousands of farms
Fiat 600′s sharp pricing might be the launchpad the brand needs
Can a cutesy-faced crossover put Fiat back among the big sellers in Ireland?
New EU tax on carbon imports could complicate things for Republic
Levy due in 2026 aims to address competitive gap opening between EU and countries which don’t price in climate costs associated with carbon emissions
Failure to decarbonise economy would hit GDP and jobs, ESRI finds
If international energy prices stay at ‘extremely high levels’, real GDP in 2030 would be about 0.7% lower, research institute says
Sinn Féin would not follow through on ‘insane’ plan to abolish carbon tax, says Eamon Ryan
Minister says the party needs to up their game on environment issues
Turning aviation green requires the stick of emission charges
By 2026, aviation will be paying the same substantial price for its carbon emissions as industry rather than its current free pass
Global ‘tipping points’ study finds humanity on disastrous trajectory
Speed at which we phase out fossil fuels and develop zero-carbon solutions will shape future of billions of people, comprehensive report finds
‘Better targeted’ Budget 2024 package would have been ‘less costly’ - IMF
Government likely to miss its 2030 climate targets and needs to ‘speed up’ progress on emissions
Climate and nature fund is ‘a gamechanger’ in addressing monetary gaps up to 2030, says Ryan
Minister states fund would be particularly useful in meeting ‘the biggest challenge of all in transport’
New climate fund is arguably the single most important element of Budget 2024 and a historic first
Budget 2024 includes measure to scale up green transition of economy
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