Are you eligible for up to €30,000 in Government-funded retrofit works?
The energy upgrade scheme can provide thousands of euro in upgrades leading to a warmer home, lower bills and a more valuable property
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Q&A: When will people receive their budget payments?
Budget 2025: There are different timetables for different people, given the amount of tax cuts, welfare increases and once-off payments
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
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
Budget 2025 Q&A: Your PAYE tax breaks, mortgage relief and employee gift limit queries answered
Dominic Coyle of The Irish Times and Beryl Power from PwC answered readers’ questions in our post-budget live blog which has now finished. You can read back on all the questions and answers below
‘I still can’t afford a house’: What the budget means for a teacher, renter, landlord, farmer and others
Budget 2025: Measures aimed at tackling the cost of living are underwhelming for some
Budget 2025: Double child benefit payment; petrol and diesel prices to increase; series of personal tax cuts
The final cost of living package will now come in at just shy of €2 billion, well in excess of the €1.5bn expected
Double child benefit and increased welfare payments among record social protection budget
Budget 2025: Weekly €12 increase across social welfare payments and double payments of child benefit - of €280 each - among rise in payments to families, pensioners and carers
‘No massive turning of the dial’: families will benefit, but not by as much as hoped
Budget 2025: Changes on the income tax front are more muted than a giveaway budget might suggest, with increased cost of living also eating into households’ gains. And some workers might even find that they will be worse off
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
Budget 2025: Jack Chambers’s speech to the Dáil in full
Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure addressed the Dáil on Tuesday
Budget 2025: What we know so far – from tax cuts to pension increases and free schoolbooks
This year’s measures will be framed around tax and spending package of €8.3bn, with cost-of-living bundle worth roughly €1.5bn
Budget 2025: Pensioners, carers and those with disabilities to be prioritised, says Heather Humphreys
The Minister for Social Protection said across-the-board welfare increases may not feature
Budget 2024 main points
Tax package worth around €800 per person, a €12 weekly increase to welfare and pension payments, and mortgage interest rate tax relief announced
What’s in the budget for Ireland’s under-35s?
Budget 2024: From reduced public transport fees to an increase in the minimum wage, the Government has introduced a series of measures aimed at helping younger people
Social welfare rates raised by €12 a week in budget, with one-offs for fuel and ‘Christmas bonus’
Budget 2024: Every PAYE worker to see their PRSI contributions increase from next year
Budget 2024, by a renter, a landlord, a teacher and more: ‘We are the squeezed middle’
Those who are not on the poverty line, yet still struggle, say they need support too
Budget 2024: Tax changes, childcare, mortgages and more – everything we know so far
Party leaders met at weekend to hammer out final details of Budget 2024
Targeted measures best way to spend public money ahead of budget, says IFAC
Irish Fiscal Advisory Council appears before Oireachtas committee three weeks before unveiling of budget
Budget 2024: Welfare for poorest and taxes for richest ‘must increase’
Budget 2024: Social Justice Ireland calls for €25 hike in weekly social welfare rates and child benefit to rise by €50 a month
Government’s cost-of-living measures widened gap between better off and poorest
Rite & Reason: Budget 2024 must not repeat the mistakes of last Budget
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