Proposal to freeze childcare fees faces pushback from creche ownersOwners tell Minister for Children they have concerns over €200m budget interventionWed Oct 13 2021 - 20:54
Covid-19: 2,066 new cases reported on Wednesday with 26 additional deaths over last seven daysOfficials warned that virus situation in State has taken turn for the worseWed Oct 13 2021 - 17:16
Budget 2022 main points: What’s in it for you?Remote working relief worth about €100 a year, €5 welfare increase, minimum wage up 30cWed Oct 13 2021 - 07:38
Budget 2022: A bigger spending package would have been ‘too risky’, Donohoe saysRamped-up spending to cover social welfare, housing, health, education and easing tax burdenWed Oct 13 2021 - 04:28
Government backbenchers react to budget with cautious welcome but some concernCoalition TDs ponder impact of aspects of tax and spending plan on different sectors of societyTue Oct 12 2021 - 20:04
Renters will feel benefits from budget, Ministers insistDonohoe and McGrath defend scale of measures on home-building and childcareTue Oct 12 2021 - 19:04
Budget 2022: Last-minute talks for 1,000 special needs assistants and 400 teachersDiscussions over winter fuel scheme ongoing, with expansion of Deis scheme closeMon Oct 11 2021 - 07:31
FF’s Éamon Ó Cúiv labels many roads slated in national plan a ‘fiction’Former minister critical of Green Party’s agenda of carbon-proofing future investmentsMon Oct 11 2021 - 01:00
State may need to ‘curtail power grid access’ for future data centresEx-chief of Climate Change Advisory Council says further building should not be encouragedSun Oct 10 2021 - 20:19
Lower than expected deficit will not prompt ‘splurge’, says McGrathTarget is ‘package that seeks to support people and improve living standards’, he saysSun Oct 10 2021 - 13:32
President ‘acutely aware’ of the ‘pain and anguish’ caused by mica‘We did nothing wrong’: Mica homeowners protest in DublinSat Oct 09 2021 - 07:33
Give me a crash course in ... the Sláintecare debacleStephen Donnelly immersed in first full-blown non-Covid health controversySat Oct 09 2021 - 06:00
Pension pathway fraught with political riskGovernment must address competing priorities on hot potato of old-age paymentFri Oct 08 2021 - 19:36
Some 500,000 to be added to waiting lists by end of year, Cabinet warned‘Waiting lists were bad before the pandemic, they are worse now’, says Minister for HealthThu Oct 07 2021 - 20:03
Ireland’s corporate tax rate set to rise to 15%, as part of global dealFirms making less than €750m a year will be taxed at previous rate of 12.5%Thu Oct 07 2021 - 19:15
Recommendations on State pension age rises to be discussed at CabinetNew hospitals and electricity supply among items also on agendaThu Oct 07 2021 - 16:59
Sinn Féin urges Government to boycott Armagh servicePresident Michael D Higgins chose not to attend commemoration for NI centenaryThu Oct 07 2021 - 13:51
Coalition suffers blow in latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI pollInside Politics: Picture is dimmer again for Fine Gael and Leo VaradkarThu Oct 07 2021 - 07:50
Donnelly says issues not raised with him before Sláintecare resignationsRóisín Shortall describes changes to oversight of universal health plan as a ‘hostile takeover’Wed Oct 06 2021 - 13:10
Sláintecare: Donnelly faces moment of political risk and opportunityInside Politics: Minister and secretary general Robert Watt will give update on implementation of plan for healthcare reformWed Oct 06 2021 - 08:11
Coveney says no decision made on corporation tax rate, despite French minister’s commentsBruno Le Maire said Ireland had changed position on moving from 12.5% rateTue Oct 05 2021 - 20:01
‘Incoherent work of fiction’: Opposition criticises National Development PlanCoalition faces criticism over lack of specifics on key projects including Metrolink schemeTue Oct 05 2021 - 16:22
Ryan ‘hopeful’ Ireland will be ‘part of solution’ on global corporate taxGreen Party leader indicates it could be important reputationally for Ireland to sign upTue Oct 05 2021 - 14:20
State will face tough trade-offs, bitter divisions on climate policyInside Politics: All sides of the Coalition can indulge in a bit of cakeism over the National Development PlanTue Oct 05 2021 - 08:06
‘Bizarre’: Opposition critical of Housing Minister’s request for input on MicaDarragh O’Brien seeks opinions on issue from Opposition spokespeople on housingMon Oct 04 2021 - 19:56
Childcare faces ‘mass exodus’ of workers unless new funds allocated – SiptuUnion to tell committee Ireland spends 0.3% of GDP on early years services and educationMon Oct 04 2021 - 19:14
‘Tax raising measures’ would fund social welfare spending in SF budget‘We will show down to the red cent how everything will be paid for,’ says KerraneMon Oct 04 2021 - 18:45
Revised €165bn national infrastructure plan to include funding for extra roadsNational Development Plan, to be published on Monday, will include more than 50 projects with a price tag of more than €100mSat Oct 02 2021 - 00:00
Pandemic bonus unlikely to involve vouchers as budget day loomsTendering issues and unspent balances pose problems amid fears of scheme being divisiveThu Sept 30 2021 - 01:00
Fianna Fáil to appoint new committee aimed at reforming the party‘Commission on the Aims and Objectives of Fianna Fáil’ formed in wake of 2020 election lossesWed Sept 29 2021 - 21:40
Global corporate tax rate: Signs emerging that deal can be struckConcerns that wording could leave room for open-ended future rises may be assuagedWed Sept 29 2021 - 18:36
Q&A: What is happening with the plan for a pandemic bonus?Jack Horgan-Jones on whether the Government has hit on the perfect way to divide a nation (almost) united by Covid-19Wed Sept 29 2021 - 17:34
Mother and baby homes redress proposals to go to Cabinet in OctoberTerm ‘birth mother’ to be dropped from legislation on adoption, says O’GormanTue Sept 28 2021 - 18:32
Varadkar keen to avoid ‘divisive’ approach to bonus for frontline workersTalks about reward for efforts during pandemic could go beyond budget day, says TánaisteTue Sept 28 2021 - 17:54
Government to allow 500 additional places for Afghan family membersRoderic O’Gorman says those arriving would not be going to direct provisionTue Sept 28 2021 - 14:51
Up to 500 relatives of Afghans in State to be offered temporary residencyCabinet also to consider changes to legislation on freedom of informationTue Sept 28 2021 - 06:00
New taskforce to tackle growing hospital waiting listsMinister seeks millions in funding for team focused on bringing down wait timesTue Sept 28 2021 - 02:00
Nursing home staff who declined vaccines to be offered jabs againSurplus shots in booster programme for residents ‘may be used’ for first dosesTue Sept 28 2021 - 01:00
Term ‘birth mother’ to be dropped from adoption legislationSome mothers find term ‘reductive and hurtful’; no alternative chosen yetMon Sept 27 2021 - 21:50
Failure of parties to account for spending of public funds should be offence – SipoState’s political ethics watchdog criticises Renua for failing to comply with obligationsFri Sept 24 2021 - 17:37
Inflation-linked rent increases may be capped once they hit a certain levelMinister for Housing Darragh O’Brien says he is ‘acutely aware’ inflation has begun to riseThu Sept 23 2021 - 01:02
State cybersecurity centre ‘underresourced and overtasked’, warns reportNCSC does not have ‘capacity’ to meet goals and faces ‘strain’ over planned EU initiativesThu Sept 23 2021 - 01:00
Plight of mica-stressed homeowners dominates FG party gatheringParliamentary party meeting hears support for 100% redress to remedy defective buildingsWed Sept 22 2021 - 21:52
Fianna Fáil TDs call for change to medical card income criteriaMeeting told Ireland has highest cumulative uptake of full vaccination among adults in the EUWed Sept 22 2021 - 20:53
HSE was in ‘uniquely vulnerable position’ at time of cyberattack – SmythMinister says two reports into HSE hack underway and will be published ‘shortly’Wed Sept 22 2021 - 15:11
Any change in corporate tax rate would only affect ‘very large companies’ – VaradkarTánaiste says Ireland’s 12.5% rate would remain for businesses with turnover less than €750mTue Sept 21 2021 - 20:13
Budget to help ‘most vulnerable’ with rising energy costs – TaoiseachMartin cites ‘challenges ahead’ with energy supplies but rules out banning new data centresTue Sept 21 2021 - 19:46
Fraser to attend Oireachtas committee on Zappone controversyDepartment secretary general to be asked when precisely former minister’s name was communicatedTue Sept 21 2021 - 17:42
Up to 56,000 lay-offs could be ‘crystallised’ after right to claim redundancy restoredState to pay up to €1,860 to workers who received PUP and end up losing their jobsTue Sept 21 2021 - 15:17
Taoiseach’s comments open up new front in corporation tax warInside Politics: Taoiseach’s answer misleadingly banal but importance cannot be understatedTue Sept 21 2021 - 09:00
