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‘Rough’ budget negotiations leave most departments without agreement as limits bite (opens the original)
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Most Ministers have not yet agreed their spending allocations for next year with Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers after a series of bruising budget meetings in recent days. Negotiations are said to be exceptionally difficult as Chambers struggles to limit spending increases to 6 per cent across the board, with Ministers and senior officials privately complaining bitterly about their treatment in recent days. Speaking on condition of anonymity in order to discuss sensitive issues, se
Our tax take used to be reliant on three companies. Now it hinges on one weight-loss drug (opens the original)
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Time for your annual guide to the Real Budget. Firstly, a quick note about all those budget kites flown in the media. For weeks now, the media has been full of stories about what may or may not be in the budget when it is jointly delivered by Simon Harris and Jack Chambers on Tuesday week. Some proposals are reported as faits accomplis; many optimistically so. Other Ministers are said to be âpushing hardâ for their spending plans. God loves a trier. This is all part of the game: Ministers or
Triple lock may prove tough to remove as poll shows many voters aligning with Opposition (opens the original)
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Once the budget is out of the way after October 6th, the Government plans to introduce legislation to abolish the triple lock, the provision which requires not just approval of the Dáil and Government but also a UN resolution before Irish troops can be sent abroad. The plan is to remove the requirement for UN approval, which the Government says is necessary because deadlock on the UN security council will prevent any future UN peacekeeping missions. For instance, the long-running Irish presence
Majority of people want data-centre construction to stop, Irish Times/Ipsos B&A poll shows (opens the original)
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A large majority favours a pause in building of data centres, according to the latest Irish Times/Ipsos B&A opinion poll. More than six-in-ten voters (61 per cent) say that the building of data centres should be stopped âfor the time being at leastâ, while 23 per cent disagree. Sixteen per cent had no opinion. The expansion of the data centre industry in Ireland has moved up the political agenda here, while there is a growing campaign against the industry in other countries, including the US
Majority of voters see immigration as a positive thing, but itâs a tighter call than before (opens the original)
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Immigration has, for the first time, become an issue in Irish politics in recent years. As the number of asylum seekers increased sharply following the Covid-19 pandemic, the Stateâs capacity to manage and accommodate the numbers was stretched to breaking point. As tents started appearing on streets, and hotels at the centre of some communities became asylum centres, immigration surged up the list of political issues the public cared about. The number of asylum seekers coming to Ireland has si
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