Budget 2025 (or is it 2026 )

Shows you how spineless they are. Imagine rte and their interrogation " welfare not increasing " but the rich working people on 30k a year, being e520 better off, due to a tax cut... pathetic country... what we now have for working people is an increase in taxation, due to inflation and the thevredusal to adjust the bands to match inflation...

The optics of giving workers a defacto income cut whilst giving the long term unemployed a €10 weekly income boost at a time when businesses are struggling to find staff is going to leave a particularly sour taste this time. Sends a really messed up message out.

It's the fact they will still spend at least €10bn more next year that should alarm everyone. That is a dangerous increase in the rate of spending. They've been repeatedly warned about this.

Another joke of a budget by these gangsters with not a single fresh idea but I bet these pigs will give themselves a pat on the back and another big bonus on top of there big salary not long after it just you wait and see. I sware if they do I will be outside Leinster House protesting for them to be gone. Who is with me?

It's roughly what I expected from a budget made by FF and FG. The last 2 years were what some might refer to as "election budgets" ie buying votes. This year the real winners are the business owners who will see a reduction in the VAT they have to charge the public subsidy for their profits

I hope it's a lesson learned for anybody who voted for them last year, believing the energy credits and student fee reductions and increases in tax bands were going to be perpetual.

This government is oblivious to the people who live in the country. I have a feeling that this will be the 2nd nail in the coffin for FF after the Jim Gavin incident. This budget really needed to give workers a lift. Any argument made for the hospitality sector could be made for people working here by way of paying USC - a supposedly temporary tax created when the country was on its knees - this is no longer the case.

Also the case for one off payments was due to Ukraine War/Electricity price spiraling and yet electricity prices have just gone up again recently and the Ukraine war is no where near being finished. I find it infuriating at the level of inconsistency when they can give a compelling reason for one off payments in the last 2 budgets and yet the same factors are still in play but now they seem it unnecessary to give the same payments. Then throw in the lying from this government and disillusionment with politics in general as we have no good options when voting time comes and the people who vote for the likes of FF/FG are done so after being lied to over certain metrics that were inflated last year, for example housing figures and of course there can be no repercussions as the phuckers have power for the foreseeable and can force a sh1tcan of a budget down the neck of the general public. There needs to be a serious change to how politics works in this country. IMO anyone who feels neither of the candidates up for election of the presidency in no way shape or form represent them then vote for Jim Gavin he is no longer running and its a protest vote and before I get the "that is disgraceful spoiling your vote" argument the fact is the idea of having a president who can do SFA and is powerless and is just an extra cost to the tax payer is exactly the right space to spell out to all parties and politicians that our political system/structure is not working. We also need a "none of the above" option going forward for elections as FF/FG will state they have a mandate from being democratically elected when in fact when you take the people who like me had no one who I felt represented me at the polling station back at the start of the year and choose not to vote. We have no voice and the fact is the majority of people in this country did not vote for FF/FG.

That is exactly it, they reduce the VAT rate for the sector to prevent future closures (which is nonsense by the way) and then on the other hand increase the cost of wages for these businesses. No joined up thinking.

The rising tide lifts all boats, increase the min, wage,. everything goes up.

Ireland is a welfare stage, the most generous in Europe and possibly the world.

No adjustments to the tax bands, has this ever happened before, when the country hasnt been up **** creek ? I doubt it... man I hope things go bust again…

I also think it's very clear, that we vote for alternatives, to bring the **** crashing down if needs be, because politics in Ireland is both rotten and inept, to the core...

The man delivering the budget who just ended his chances of been FF leader delivering a shocking budget for working people.

Builders looked after along with hospitality.

The VAT cut for the builders particularly sickens me.

All cheaper up north, all the time...

Everyone knew this was going to happen, last budget was a giveaway one that coincidentally was just before the GE, double payments paid literally the week before.

Anyone who fell for that cheap trick and voted for them really need to read a few books.

Take this in from the official 2026 budget publication today

A general government surplus of €10.2 billion (3.0 per cent of GNI*) is anticipated for this year. When ‘excess’ corporation taxation receipts (estimated at c. €17½ billion) are excluded from the headline balance, the underlying balance is in deficit, projected at €7.4 billion (2.2 per cent of GNI*).

In 2026 a general government surplus of €5.1 billion (1.4 per cent of GNI*) is projected. Excluding ‘excess’ corporation tax receipts, an underlying deficit of €13.6 billion (3.8 per cent of GNI*) is expected.

2007 all over again and throwing money around like confetti. Instead of housing it's corporation tax.

Of course we now have the opposition on their feet telling us how they'd spend even more.

€17.5bn of corporation tax receipts are windfall receipts.