RTÉ will be insolvent without bailout of tens of millions of euro by next spring, PAC hearsDirector general Kevin Bakhurst tells spending watchdog that actions taken to manage finances of crisis-hit broadcaster have saved ‘several million euro’Thu Oct 12 2023 - 17:08
RTÉ financial crisis: Kevin Bakhurst says broadcaster will be insolvent without bailout of tens of millions Complete sale of Montrose campus ‘unlikely’, RTÉ's director general tells Public Accounts CommitteeThu Oct 12 2023 - 12:06
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 announcedTue Oct 10 2023 - 18:06
Budget 2024 to deliver free secondary schoolbooks for certain yearsCuts to childcare fees, energy credit, and an increase in renters’ tax credit among measures on offerTue Oct 10 2023 - 05:00
Budget 2024 talks: Childcare fees cut by 25%, €450 energy credit, mortgage tax break up to €1,250 among measures consideredAlso included is €55 million in funding to expand provision of free school books to the first three year groups in secondary schoolsMon Oct 09 2023 - 21:04
Michael McGrath’s debut budget: ‘He’s been practising this speech for a long time’The accountant with a fastidious attention to his brief has built a reputation of being a shrewd but inscrutable operatorMon Oct 09 2023 - 19:48
Budget 2024: The table, the couch and the art of pulling a budget togetherExpect architects McGrath and Donohoe to be cautious and unshowy on Tuesday, despite political pressure to spend billions in surplusesSat Oct 07 2023 - 07:00
Budget 2024: Frantic final days of negotiations as deadline looms without agreementHealth bailout and temporary measures made permanent could squeeze ministers’ room for manoeuvreFri Oct 06 2023 - 06:00
Fine Gael tears lumps out of Sinn Féin’s ‘alternative budget’, revealing its concerns Inside Politics: Fine Gael fires out six press releases over Sinn Féin’s proposals, as Opposition parties make dizzying array of spending promisesThu Oct 05 2023 - 08:09
Budget 2024: Donnelly privately warns drug firms no funds for new medicines are likely due to health overrunsFinal agreement on health overspend has not been reached as negotiations between party leaders continueThu Oct 05 2023 - 06:00
Sinn Féin would tax banks and high earners to fund housing and cost-of-living supportsParty’s alternative budget would retain wealth tax and add other tax revenue to fund spendingWed Oct 04 2023 - 18:38
Warnings sounded as corporation tax dips days before budget announcementESRI’s gloomy forecast also likely to see Paschal Donohoe and Michael McGrath remain prudentWed Oct 04 2023 - 07:09
Landmark planning legislation may not be passed by Oireachtas until 2024Green Party TD Steven Matthews, chair of Oireachtas housing committee, says he is ‘reserving judgment’ on legislation over concerns about citizens’ rights being ‘watered down’Tue Oct 03 2023 - 16:19
Budget 2024: Planned €12 increase in pensions, other benefits ‘inadequate’, Labour saysFinance spokesman Ged Nash calls for core welfare rates to rise by at least €20 per weekTue Oct 03 2023 - 13:20
Donnelly makes ‘no apologies’ for spending on healthcare amid budget tensionsMinister calls for ‘honest conversation’ about overspend and defended ‘significant investment’Tue Oct 03 2023 - 11:04
After three winters of crises, Coalition faces more traditional headaches in the months aheadAs rank-and-file gardaí and barristers begin industrial action, the Government looks to focus on next week’s budgetTue Oct 03 2023 - 07:33
Cabinet to consider contentious Bill to reform planning systemCritics claim legislation curtails right to challenge decisions through judicial review, while An Bord Pleanála would be renamedTue Oct 03 2023 - 06:00
Tensions rise over roads spending as Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil press Eamon RyanGreen leader criticised over memo that suggested shortfalls could mean some projects are deprioritisedFri Sept 29 2023 - 06:00
Budget 2024: €65bn in surpluses to be revised down, McGrath signalsBudget is opportunity to prepare for harsh times rather than for landmark €11 billion budget package announced last year, says Minister for FinanceWed Sept 27 2023 - 20:58
Budget 2024: Renewed calls for tax reductions for the ‘squeezed middle’Parliamentarians call for measures for those paying the top 40 per cent rate but also to protect welfare recipients from inflationWed Sept 27 2023 - 19:36
We Need to Talk: Tony Holohan doesn’t shy away from saying when he felt let down by othersCandid tale of a man caught in the eye of that Covid storm that gives valuable insights into one of the questions most people will want answers to: what makes Tony Holohan tickWed Sept 27 2023 - 05:00
PAC to get advice on extent of its powers as it seeks answers in RTÉ pay saga Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy says committee wants to be ‘sure of just exactly what we can and can’t compel’Tue Sept 26 2023 - 21:32
O’Gorman say only 13 childcare providers have responded to request for extra financial informationMinister tells Fianna Fáil TDs and Senators a lack of financial information makes it more challenging when making case for more funding in budgetTue Sept 26 2023 - 21:15
Reducing tax on rental income among budget proposals for keeping landlords in market Budget 2024: Fraught pre-budget negotiations made worse by expected €1bn health overspendTue Sept 26 2023 - 06:00
Half a billion a year spent on job creation schemes with ‘limited evidence’ for effectivenessShort-term training for in-demand skills more useful for progress to full employment, Government paper saysSat Sept 23 2023 - 14:00
Who or what was behind this week’s protests outside the Dáil?A crowd of around 200 gathered outside Leinster House, setting up a mock gallows and jostling and abusing politicians of all parties as they arrivedSat Sept 23 2023 - 06:00
McEntee wants to use anti-terror legislation to prevent future intimidation by far-right protestersOffences Against the State Act to be considered with enhanced security around Dáil on budget daySat Sept 23 2023 - 05:00
Dáil protests: McEntee orders Garda security review for TDs, Senators and Oireachtas staffTaoiseach Leo Varadkar warns against ‘going too far’ with security at Leinster House and says gardaí had dealt with ‘credible death threats’ against himFri Sept 22 2023 - 20:29
Dáil protests: Use of mock gallows investigated as potential criminal offence Leinster House security review under way, with increased vetting of visitors consideredFri Sept 22 2023 - 05:00
Ryan Tubridy’s agent Noel Kelly insisted contract be ‘paid in full’ when RTÉ proposed cuts in 2019RTÉ refusing to release details of severance and exit packages to top executives involved in Tubridy pay controversy,Thu Sept 21 2023 - 20:02
Thirteen arrests amid vitriolic protests outside Dáil as TDs safeguarded by gardaíUp to 200 demonstrators turn out on first day of new Dáil venting anger on issues including immigration and proposed hate-speech lawsWed Sept 20 2023 - 20:53
New farmers’ political party has become ‘serious discussion point’ in OireachtasContentious issues among disaffected rural voters include turf-cutting, nitrates, bog rewetting, roads investment and forestry privatisationWed Sept 20 2023 - 20:30
Micheál Martin defends ‘relevance’ of UN after Michael D Higgins says it is ‘losing credibility’President criticises record of international body as world leaders gather in New YorkTue Sept 19 2023 - 19:22
Ploughing Championships: Wet weather hits attendance figures as Minister is challenged by farmers‘You need to get fighting’: Farming group representative tackles Charlie McConalogue over EU nitrates derogationTue Sept 19 2023 - 18:58
Climate change will cause ‘big changes in diet’, says President HigginsSpeaking at Ploughing Championships, Higgins criticises market-led farming and food production industry in EuropeTue Sept 19 2023 - 13:57
Ireland needs greater use of average speed cameras to reduce crashes, Minister says‘Worrying trend’ in road death must be tackled with more use of technology on the roads, minister saysTue Sept 19 2023 - 12:23
Most dangerous rural roads may see expanded use of average-speed camerasCameras could be deployed on 460km of rural primary roads where there is consistent speeding, according to Transport Infrastructure IrelandMon Sept 18 2023 - 06:00
Leo Varadkar accused of resorting to ‘childish politics’ in bid to endear Fine Gael to farmers Fianna Fáil figures say Taoiseach’s gesture will not lead to change in EU’s nitrates policyMon Sept 18 2023 - 06:00
Tony Holohan says he was unfairly treated during controversy over botched move to TCDState’s former chief medical officer sharply critical in memoir of leaks from report into the controversial proposed moveMon Sept 18 2023 - 06:00
Potential for State office space to be converted to residential useAudit of existing State office stock sought by housing minister amid deep housing crisisMon Sept 18 2023 - 06:00
Government considers means-tested support for mortgage holdersMinister of State Niall Collins says scheme may be introduced in response to latest interest rate rise by the European Central BankSun Sept 17 2023 - 21:20
Mortgage relief benefit may be revived, but only for those in difficultyGovernment mulls possibility of postponing fuel duty increase as it considers assistance for worst-hit mortgage holders onlySat Sept 16 2023 - 06:00
What are Sinn Féin doing for under 35s?Party has pledged to a month’s rent back in tenants’ pockets, reduce student fees and abolish fees for apprenticeships and will soon outline proposals on childcare costsFri Sept 15 2023 - 19:50
New political party established by mica campaigners gains approval to fight elections100% Redress Party is expected to field candidates in 2024 local electionsFri Sept 15 2023 - 13:04
Sinn Féin says holding housing portfolio will be ‘key’ in coalition talksMary Lou McDonald says ‘rumours of my demise are greatly exaggerated’ ahead of party think-in in DublinFri Sept 15 2023 - 11:57
What are Social Democrats doing for under-35s?Party looks well positioned to capitalise on youth vote but among older demographics support declines and is markedly weaker outside LeinsterFri Sept 15 2023 - 06:00
Cut in USC would only put ‘few euro’ back in pockets of voters, says CairnsSocial Democrats leader claims people on politicians’ wages had no capacity to understand reality of waiting lists or housing crisisThu Sept 14 2023 - 16:11
Mary Lou McDonald speaks about undergoing hysterectomy this yearSinn Féin leader says she had the surgery to remove tumours and ‘I didn’t require any further treatments or therapies’Thu Sept 14 2023 - 12:50
RTÉ facing months of cost-cutting as it struggles with looming €28m deficit Director general inspiring sufficient confidence about planned reforms to enable Government to turn on funding taps, say Coalition sourcesThu Sept 14 2023 - 01:00
Legal battle looming for RTÉ and Ryan TubridyRTE and former presenter Tubridy disagree over details of contractWed Sept 13 2023 - 21:56
