Minister plays down reports of tension with Jack Chambers over Budget 2027
Labour leader Ivana Bacik says ‘pathetic’ Budget 2027 is a ‘KitKat budget from a TikTok Tánaiste’
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Budget 2027 main points: everything you need to know
Here is our list of the key measures expected to be announced in Budget 2027 at lunchtime
Budget 2027: Measures put public finances on worse trajectory, State watchdog warns
Help-to-buy scheme increases; free contraception age rises; fuel allowance to increase by €5
Q&A: How will social welfare changes affect you?
€10-a-week increase in all core payments from January
Budget 2027: Permanent disability support grant to be introduced
Payment seen in Department of Social Protection as ‘first step’ in acknowledging additional costs people with disabilities face
Call for new child benefit tier amid rise in number of children living below poverty line
Economic and Social Research Institute finds levels of child poverty higher when housing costs factored in
Labour proposes €100 monthly child benefit top-up during winter
Party gathers for first of autumn think-ins
Sending a child to college costs an average of €11,102 this year. Here is the smarter way to pay
College costs a lot of money, so start planning now
Universal basic income would help alleviate child poverty, too
Introducing another means-tested benefit, though, could mean children in real need might miss out
Child benefit reform is a no-brainer. So why has the Government not done it?
Feckless inertia has become actively malign
Newborn child grant of €280 paid out for almost 49,000 families
Payment is automatically received along with first child benefit payment
How house-buyers can borrow more than four times their income
Borrowing power can be boosted in various ways, including pitching for an exception and using Child Benefit
How do welfare payments compare with what you get north of the Border?
We take a look at some of the major payments - pension, unemployment and child benefit
Budget 2026: Welfare, petrol, diesel and cigarettes rise, little change to income tax
Changes in the rent tax credit, increase in minimum wage and VAT rate reduction for hospitality among highlights
How will welfare changes affect children in poverty, pensioners, single parents?
Budget 2026: Minister will be hoping children in poverty and disabled people will feel the greatest uplift – but will they?
Anti-populist budget offers little for middle-income earners
Many will notice the absence of personal tax reliefs, energy credits and double child benefit
Budget 2026 main points: Renters’ tax credit extended, minimal personal tax changes
Here is our detailed summary with a list of all the key measures
Budget 2026: What’s another year to a hungry two-year-old?
Nobody disagrees on the value of a second tier of child benefit. So why has it not been introduced? Lethargy
Budget 2026 should raise social welfare payments to cut child poverty, says Dara Calleary
Minister for Social Protection says Ireland’s disabled unemployment rate is ‘just not acceptable’
Second-tier child benefit payments will not arrive for Budget 2026, says Minister
Dara Calleary says scheme has been worked upon but will not be ready for October 7th
What will Budget 2026 have to help young families? From income tax to childcare
Energy credits and double child benefit weeks are gone - but the Government will try to soften the blow
Budget 2026: What will it mean for the average earner in Ireland?
Will we have a cost-of-living package? And how big will the income tax element be?
Second tier child benefit could leave up to 100,000 worse off, tax strategy paper suggests
Report says such a payment would involve the replacement of some existing supports and leave some worse off
Will the Government really put McDonald’s ahead of children in poverty?
The share of children below the poverty line is no lower than during the worst years of the financial crisis
Thinking of private school for your children? Better start saving now
When should you start saving? ‘When a child is born’
Child Benefit: Will payments rise for lower income households and what will this mean for wealthier parents?
A second child benefit option for less well-off households is under consideration and there could yet be once-off payments
Social welfare Christmas payments: Dates, when are the increases and is there a double payment?
Social welfare recipients will receive two payments at the same time this week
Higher inheritance tax threshold will not apply just because you have yet to get inheritance
VAT on heat pumps, the non-contributory pension and savings, and bonus child benefit payments exercise readers
Double pension and child benefit payments and cost-of-living lump sums to be paid by December 3rd
Timing of the payments will likely fuel speculation around an early general election
Mortgage interest relief: How do I qualify for the tax credit of up to €1,250?
Budget 2025 triggered a range of queries from readers on issues including child benefit for newborns and landlord tax relief
Childcare industry says level of support in budget like a ‘kick in the stomach’
Budget 2025: Increases in funding for early learning and childcare ‘utterly insufficient’, say providers
Budget 2025 will only increase rich-poor gap, Social Justice Ireland says
Budget measures fail to match the stated ambition of tackling child poverty, says NGO
Budget 2025: Opposition calls for election as Coalition defends budget ‘bonanza’ in face of fierce criticism
Labour says budget was ‘all glitter and full of shiny gimmicks’; Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said she ‘wants to see a full restoration’ of barristers fees
Was the budget designed to help the country’s poorest children or those of the richest?
Budget 2025: Spending the same amount cutting inheritance tax as went to permanent payments targeted at the poorest children was an odd choice
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