Budget 2025: Here's what to expect today
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- A social welfare package of €2.7bn will highlight one of the biggest budgets in the history of the State.
Over-70s will be allowed to bring a friend with them for free on public transport under last minute plans.
Coalition party leaders signed off on the measures late last night ahead of a Cabinet meeting this morning.
In Jack Chambers' first budget as Finance Minister and the last of this coalition there is no shortage of cash to spend.
An unprecedented social welfare package is highlighted by €1.5bn in one-off payments - including two double social welfare payments and two double Child Benefit payments by Christmas.
One of the last measures agreed was a new pensioners pass allowing over-70s to bring a friend or loved one with them for free on public transport.
Core social welfare rates will rise by €12 a week while electricity credits totaling €250 will be paid in November and December.
The Green Party has secured a €420 baby boost payment of Child Benefit to new parents and increases to maternity and paternity benefit.
The budget will also include the rollout of free Hormone Replacement Therapy and an expansion of the publicly funded IVF scheme.
There will also be an extra €30m in funding for new medicines.
The rollout of free HRT will begin in January of next year - with the State set to fund the cost of medicines, patches and other devices such as coils.
The expansion of the publicly funded IVF scheme will see couples who already have a child able to apply.
Donor-assisted IVF is also set to be included from 2025 with changes in the law and plans to establish a new Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority (AHRRA).
The budget will also include free schoolbooks for all children, 1,500 new SNAs and up to 1,000 new Gardaí.
There will also be more staff recruited for the International Protection Office.
On the tax side Universal Social Charge (USC) and income tax will be cut but the VAT on the hospitality sector is staying at 13.5%.
Duty will rise on cigarettes and there will be a new vaping tax but alcohol is being left alone.
Minister Chambers has previously said any such vape tax would increase over the coming years.
While plans for the Apple tax money will also be revealed at 1pm today.
Join us live throughout the day as we bring you up-to-the-minute updates from Leinster House as Budget 2025 is announced.
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The Irish people need to have an emergency general election immediately, based on 10 topics.
1 - Change of government. - (yes or no.
2 - House the Irish first. - (yes or no)
3 - Deport all undocumented refugees & take measures to keep a stable 80% majority of native Irish living on the Island. - (yes or no)
4 - Take measures to prevent future cost of living crises designed to push native Irish people of the Island of Ireland. - (yes or no)
5 - A united Ireland. - (yes or no)
6 - Leave the EU.- (yes or no)
7 - Yearly Irish citizens voting for what Ireland does with is own resources. - (yes or no)
8 - Revive the Irish Language & Culture. - (yes or no)
9 - Allow native Irish citizens that were born in Ireland to submit votes on Irish politics from abroad. - (yes or no)
10 - allow the Irish people to vote on what should be done with the $14B apple money instead of allowing the politicians squander the money by enriching themselves while impoverishing the Irish people.
they are not yes or no questions....u need detailed info on all of them....what if u like some and not others.....
Leave the EU, sure expert
Health Insurance , well thats it for me & family , i can't continue with another hike rise 😢 ..... famillies working nonstop get nothing .
Hardworking People are on their last legs here . Trying to keep roof over their heads , heat , lighting , travel , food , clothing ...... collage fees , getting children back to school .... families few euro over & entitled to nothing .
Im done , fool me no more .
Elections coming up .
I think ill rip up my passport & go into Ipas centre & say ..... HELLO , me no english , need help .
Sick to my teeth of this government .
We all have been fooled
Here's what to expect. NOTHING
"Parents, pensioners and students" whereas those of us without kids and are being crucified by costs with nothing back are still getting nothing back but paying for everything
They do that to pit people against each other.
So many leaving , unfair & not right .
I agree with you . 💯
@@kevfit4333100% .
I’m a pensioner,& have & continue to pay taxes as cannot live off the pension...I’m 67 years of age & a miserly €12 increase on an already meagre pension ( I’ve worked since I was 15) so have paid plenty of tax....& still can’t afford to retire..
Child benefits not mean tested... wow just wow
400 extra staff for processing asylum seekers, so exactly how many are they expecting with the open door policy for illegal migrants, economic migrants and false claimants?
How much of the $14 B apple money will go to reviving roads, infrastructure, buss routes & water supply for rural towns of the west coast of Ireland that has been neglected because of using all tax payers money for the expansion of Dublin city greed.
It is Dublin that carries the rest of the country except the cities.
I got on the luas recently, my phone rang I could not take it out of my pocket we were that packed in.
Same for The DART.
@@williampatrickfagan7590 Sounds like your quality of life is deteriorating William.
Where does you're food come from ? Farmers ,country folk have paid just as much as city folk . In actual fact we have been left with no proper transport , roads ,housing too , diabolical all round .
@@Hiberina32 I hope the lot would.
Example the Belfast Roslare road otherwise known as A1 M1, M50, M11, N11 is the only road that has a major European Port with 84 sailingsto the European Union and 28 sailing a week to UK that has a 50 Km pH speed limit.
That is crazy. 1,000 trucks a week doing 50 Km p h.
Battling traffic pedestrian lights roundabouts school warden's hospitals etc etc
Go out and fill your cars today.... Haha to save about €1 😅😅
Should the Irish people vote on what to spend the $14 B apple money on in ireland instead of allowing the politicians to squander it for themselves while profiting from all transactions created. !!??? - a general election is needed immediately.
No, definitely not.
The government has a right and entitlement to spend the money as it sees fit.
no...thats why we vote a government
@@williampatrickfagan7590they spent millions of our money in legal fees trying not to accept this money owed to us
What qualifications has the new minister for finance..whos barely in the Dail and barely outta short pants got to run the finances of the country...apart from serving his apprenticeship as meeholes pet project?
He doesn't need to be qualified, he's reading a script that some senior civil servant wrote for him in the finance department, and he just throws in 'I am ' a few times just because he's the finance minister, it's politics and spin and it's probably the same script that was written five years ago.
We don't want a giveaway. We want affordable housing
Russian bots are out in Force 🤣
Narrative maintained.
Pensioners get €12 rise we're the forgotten ppl this year .
I moved to Asia 2 years ago because I couldn't afford to rent a house in Wicklow .
Because I moved here, I lost my medical card & I've no access to medication from Ireland .
I've also lost my fuel allowance from my pension & no government gilts
What are the changes on investment taxes such as etf ??? The taxation is still brutal. Nothing has changed?????
Weston always trying to stir things up,always wrong