Dentists and GPs hold key to promise of free care for children
THE promise of free GP care for children under eight, extending the scheme currently available to the under sixes, is likely to benefit around 70,000.
View ArticleDistillers and small brewers toast the minister
Brewers and distillers have welcomed budget plans aimed at helping them to get production and profits flowing.
View ArticleFamilies gain from inheritance tax change
THERE was some cheer for people with assets who want to pass them on to their children without paying tax.
View Article'We can't afford to have any more children' - says Dublin mum-of-one
AISLING Foley (33), who lives in Kinsealy in north Dublin with her fiancé and daughter Grace, said that the Budget didn't provide for the working family.
View Article'We've got your back,' Leo told farmers - but Budget shows that's a load of bull
Earlier this year, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told farmers the Government had the back of the farming sector.
View ArticleSympathy: 'Carbon tax leaves rural motorists stranded'
THE carbon tax will leave rural motorists and farmers stranded, according to father of two Jimmy Dempsey (60), who lives in Castlerea, Co Roscommon. He is self-employed as a farmer and lives with his...
View ArticleNicola Anderson: 'Donohoe's doomsday Brexit Budget the shape of things to come'
BURIED amid the dreadful script to the film 'Dumb and Dumberer' was one good line: "So this is what rock bottom feels like. Meh. It's not so bad."
View ArticleBookies on a winner as betting tax relief of up to €50,000 brought in
A TAX break for bookmakers from paying the 2pc betting tax up to a limit of €50,000 was announced in Budget 2020.
View ArticleKim Bielenberg: 'Boxer' and Brexit keep Paschal in a corner
There were no spectacular flights of oratory from Paschal Donohoe in his speech, as he was boxed in by Boris, Brexit, and 'Boxer' Moran.
View ArticleShopkeeper's city centre footfall fears in the light of carbon tax measure
TOY shop owner Wyon Stansfeld expressed concern that Budget 2020 failed to include measures to offset the affect of carbon taxes on small-medium retailers.
View ArticleSinead Ryan: 'No rise in child benefit and little comfort to be found in...
Paschal Donohoe wasn't inclined to give direct payments to parents this year, either in the form of increased Child Benefit (which benefits everyone, irrespective of need), or help toward...
View ArticleBudget 2021 is great for builders and landlords
So what's the difference between a Fine Gael budget and a Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael budget when it comes to housing?
View ArticleFarmers must wait and see as UK's no-deal threat looms
There will be little comfort for farmers in the Finance Minister's closing remarks yesterday. "If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere," Paschal Donohoe said, quoting Seamus Heaney.
View ArticleCovid-19's appetite for destruction consumes half the health service budget
Covid-19 has taken lives and freedoms, and now it is seizing around €2bn of the precious extra €4bn announced for the health service in the Budget yesterday.
View ArticleCoalition gets going at last to deliver mother of all budgets
There is a running joke in government circles that tends to get repeated around Budget time: Leo Varadkar is demanding a cut to excise duty on wine. The Tánaiste is still smarting over the decision to...
View Article
