What options does Government have to help protect consumers from major energy shock?Windfall taxes on utility companies, VAT cuts, rebates and welfare increases among potential options to tackle soaring energy costsTue Aug 30 2022 - 19:40
EU preparing ‘emergency intervention’ in energy market to drive down prices‘Skyrocketing’ electricity prices are exposing limitations of current electricity market design, European Commission president saysTue Aug 30 2022 - 05:00
Government to produce new plan to tackle energy poverty amid fears of sky-high billsEamon Ryan will tell Oireachtas environment committee on Tuesday about the planMon Aug 29 2022 - 20:31
Report on Holohan TCD post plan sent to parties named in itMinister for Health to publish ‘as soon as he can’ report on abandoned plan to appoint former chief medical officer to new professorship in TrinityMon Aug 29 2022 - 19:53
Consumers warned to expect further energy price hikes in coming weeksDepartment of Finance and Revenue Commissioners examining Green Party proposal for windfall tax on energy companiesSat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
How Official Ireland is planning to keep the lights on in a doomsday scenarioAs war in Ukraine threatens gas supplies and highlights issues of energy costs and system security, emergency plans provide for fuel rationingSat Aug 27 2022 - 04:30
People struggling with utility bills this winter to be given more time to pay under new plansCost of electricity, gas and oil have all increased by significant margins in the last 12 monthsThu Aug 25 2022 - 05:00
State may be reliant on gas supplied via UK ‘within four years’Government documents also note concerns over future capacity of key infrastructure to handle peak demandThu Aug 25 2022 - 04:45
Fuel shortages may threaten State’s capacity to ‘maintain societal function and civil order’Supply choke scenarios drawn up to cover fuel allocation to different user categories and intensified roles for Garda, Army and Minister for EnvironmentWed Aug 24 2022 - 05:00
70% of Irish households would be in energy poverty in worst-case scenarios drawn up for crisis groupSeparate documents show officials flagged risks about capacity to maintain ‘civil order’ in a worst-case scenario interruption to fuel supplyWed Aug 24 2022 - 05:00
Fianna Fáil TD Cathal Crowe ordered by Sipo to hand back €800 of donationFour Oireachtas members received donations above threshold for which they had to declare themMon Aug 22 2022 - 17:16
Prospect of €15 increases to weekly welfare payments fadesThe welfare budget is also set to be supplemented by one-off measuresFri Aug 19 2022 - 01:00
Minister of State Robert Troy discloses details of substantial property interestsFianna Fáil TD amends register of interests and apologises for ‘errors and omissions’Thu Aug 18 2022 - 15:58
Tax on alcohol and cigarettes set to remain untouched in budget but welfare battle looms Ministers unconvinced on increasing excise duty as tensions loom over suggestions of €15 welfare hikeThu Aug 18 2022 - 05:00
Government issues renewed appeal for accommodation for Ukrainian refugees Government appeals for properties to house new arrivals in medium-term as system under severe pressureThu Aug 18 2022 - 05:00
Budget 2023: Tax breaks for landlords and tenants under considerationRestoration of tax credit for renters a ‘point of discussion’ along with measures to keep landlords in marketThu Aug 18 2022 - 05:00
Ethics law review to examine disclosure obligations for TDs selling property to public bodiesTánaiste has ‘total confidence’ in Robert Troy amid questions over property interestsWed Aug 17 2022 - 20:45
New funding model for childcare operators ‘unsustainable’, providers say The €221-million programme requires services to sign up to agree to freeze fees at September 2021 levelsWed Aug 17 2022 - 17:30
Investigation into disclosures of Minister’s property interests soughtMinister of State Robert Troy’s dealings in relation to three properties in his constituency have come under scrutinyWed Aug 17 2022 - 05:00
Total of 48,000 Ukrainians forecast to have arrived in State by end of AugustPressure to continue on meeting war-fleeing refugees’ needs for immediate and longer-term accommodationWed Aug 17 2022 - 03:00
Robert Watt should head up both HSE and Department of Health to justify salary, Cowen saysSecretary general of Department of Health on salary of €294,920 as Fianna Fáil TD urges his parallel appointment to role being vacated by Paul ReidTue Aug 16 2022 - 21:04
Department offered thousands of beds to Ukrainians that were already filled with refugeesTensions grow between two Government departments over their respective roles in handling the fallout from the Ukrainian crisisTue Aug 16 2022 - 02:30
‘Great resignation’ and pandemic burnout putting ambulance service at risk - HSE documentsRecruitment efforts being surpassed by demand as healthcare workers seek jobs with better work-life balance, leaving a ‘resource gap’Mon Aug 15 2022 - 03:48
Staffing crisis threatens ambulance response timesHSE report warns recruitment being surpassed by demand for organisation’s services, which ‘poses serious risk’ to ability to deliver servicesMon Aug 15 2022 - 03:45
‘Significant gap’ in public pay to be bridged, warn union leaders, as talks set to resume Government says it is willing to improve its pay offer for public sector workers, but increases would not match record levels of inflationSun Aug 14 2022 - 22:02
Green Party among those opposed to 30% income tax rate proposal for budgetIdea seems likely to be dropped in favour of widening tax bands and indexing them to wagesSun Aug 14 2022 - 21:51
Varadkar says Griffith and Collins did not believe there was ‘no alternative to war’Tanaiste tells commemoration that Griffith ‘never lost heart, he never wavered in his belief, he never stopped working for freedom’Sun Aug 14 2022 - 16:54
Budget 2023: The winners, the losers and the battles still being foughtCoalition faces tough tax and spending choices as it struggles with a likely economic slowdown and soaring inflationSat Aug 13 2022 - 05:00
Extra cost-of-living package of up to €1bn planned for budget dayMore electricity subsidies and a bonus welfare payment being examined as ‘once-off’ measuresSat Aug 13 2022 - 05:00
Coalition pledges tax package to benefit almost all workersWelfare recipients, renters and landlords set to gain from upcoming budgetThu Aug 11 2022 - 05:00
Creation of 30% tax rate would be a ‘significant’ structural change, Donohoe saysMinister for Finance does not see Irish economy sliding into recession this year but says grave risks lie ahead in 2023Wed Aug 10 2022 - 18:30
Irish vacant property levels ‘in line with functioning housing market’, report findsDepartment of Finance study finds vacancy is ‘predominantly short term’ and mainly due to ‘refurbishment’Wed Aug 10 2022 - 15:18
Government yet to act on months-old proposal to house UkrainiansProposal would see builders convert vacant buildings into homes on pro-bono basis, with costs recoupableWed Aug 10 2022 - 01:00
Over 1,200 Ukrainian refugees set to exit student quarters ‘by mid-September’Department of Integration also signals that thousands due to be moved before end of this monthMon Aug 08 2022 - 21:20
Green Party concerned at remarks by FF and FG Ministers on Shannon gas projectContributions from Coalition Ministers of State run to ‘grasping opportunity’ and improving security of supplyMon Aug 08 2022 - 20:20
More than one million people could benefit from new tax rate of 30%, analysis findsProposals are due to be assessed as part of the Department of Finance’s annual publication of Tax Strategy Group papersFri Aug 05 2022 - 19:43
State bodies told to redouble efforts to identify properties for housing useGovernment departments and agencies offered disused harbourmasters’ cottages, ‘marriage quarters’ in Garda stations and stipulations that some homes could only be built for Irish speakersFri Aug 05 2022 - 07:22
How a trawl of Government departments’ property portfolios for housing fell far short of expectationsEach department replied following a review of vacant properties under their remitFri Aug 05 2022 - 05:00
Sinn Féin’s tax plans branded ‘anti-enterprise’ by TaoiseachPearse Doherty says his party would not increase taxes on small businesses after Micheál Martin accuses SF of ‘knee jerk’ politicsWed Aug 03 2022 - 21:17
Leo Varadkar met developer of Shannon liquefied natural gas project in KerryGovernment backed out of plans to support plant, but proposal still enjoys support of some in Fine GaelTue Aug 02 2022 - 23:59
How does the carbon emissions ceilings plan work - or not?Deal revolves around voluntary cuts, renewable energy, unallocated savings and land use changeFri Jul 29 2022 - 05:00
More than 80% of owners of defective homes unable to sell Up to 100,000 properties may be affected by historical fire safety and other defects which could cost up to €2.5 billion to remedy — reportThu Jul 28 2022 - 20:08
Emissions deal: Farming and environmental groups criticise 25% agriculture cutGovernment move a ‘sell-out of our family farm model’ which would make ‘whole classes of farms unviable’, ICMSA saysThu Jul 28 2022 - 20:03
Report on defects in apartments forensically details extent of the malaise left by Celtic Tiger and its shoddy legacyThose involved immiserated thousands of blameless homebuyers and now leave little more than a bill for billions of euro in their wake, writes Jack Horgan JonesThu Jul 28 2022 - 15:48
Modular homes to be built to house refugees, with sites across four counties selected Locations in west Dublin, Cork and Cavan among those identified for useThu Jul 28 2022 - 14:35
Billions in remediation works cannot be levied on responsible builders, report findsWorking group on defects in housing report states ‘not feasible retrospectively to impose a penalty on the individual firms responsible for defects’Thu Jul 28 2022 - 05:00
More than half of climate plans missed as agriculture emissions wrangling continues Just 45% of 162 measures for April, May and June implemented as deal talks gripped in deadlockThu Jul 28 2022 - 03:00
Coalition ‘hopeful’ on carbon emissions deal but key issues still to be resolvedGreen Party leader Eamon Ryan: ‘We’re still working on things’Wed Jul 27 2022 - 19:26
Coalition in extended talks to secure agreement on core climate targetsIssue of primary importance for Green Party, but fears mount that failure to find solution could defer decision until autumnTue Jul 26 2022 - 22:14
Coalition leaders fail to reach deal on carbon cuts in farming sectorGrowing fears of further delay in securing deal on agriculture emissionsTue Jul 26 2022 - 16:13
