The Economic and Social Research Institute calculated that over the last five budgets households are worse off by about 0.7 per cent of disposable income.

The watchdog also said that only half of the Government’s 2.1 billion euro of cost-of-living measures were targeted.

Minister for Finance Jack Chambers said Budget 2025 has ‘the common good at its core’

He said that seven teachers around his age plan to go overseas after Christmas

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council said the ‘very large’ Budget package will add pressures and widen the underlying deficit

Regina Bushell of Grovelands Childcare said the budget contained ‘perks’ for parents but little for providers

Vinod Bajaj said the government needs to set out a clear pension plan for the years ahead.

Labour, the Social Democrats and Solidarity-People Before Profit heavily criticised Budget 2025.

Will Monaghan, who owns two businesses in Dublin, said it was a budget ‘for an election, a budget for the individual’.

One-off measures should be replaced with meaningful action, a student representative has said.

The past year ‘has been one of the toughest in agriculture’, father of four Bill O’Keeffe said.

Tipperary farmer Garrett O’Brien says the cost-of-living package was ‘a help but it’s not going to make a whole lot of difference’.

Pearse Doherty said people could “see through the spin”.

Ireland is to receive the back taxes from Apple as a result of a landmark ruling in the European Court of Justice last month.

Jack Chambers said Budget 2025 has “the common good at its core” and provides a “unique” opportunity to provide for people and to transform Ireland

The VFI is sounding the alarm that "insufficient measures" will push many pubs to the breaking point.

The biggest budget in the history of the State has been unveiled, the last before an upcoming General Election.

Ireland now has one of Europe's healthiest sets of public finances. But how does the Government spend the money?

Popular energy credits, a €420 ‘baby boost’, and how the Government will spend Apple billions are to be announced on Tuesday afternoon.

One of ETBI's priorities is the increasing of the number and profile of Community National Schools nationwide.

Two double payments of child benefit, possibly before the end of the year, are on the cards for Budget 2025.

Prices rises have slowed to their lowest level since March 2021

A €2 billion euro cost-of-living package is being finalised by the Government ahead of the budget announcement tomorrow

Coalition leaders and senior Ministers were engaged in high-level negotiations on Sunday night, ahead of the Budget on Tuesday.

Here, we have a look at the topics likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come

The Union of Students in Ireland says there is a 'significant opportunity' for the Government to finally address the serious challenges facing third-level students

The IPOA is urging the Government to introduce tax reforms and review current rental regulations to address the mass departure of property owners from the rental market.

Limerick City Fine Gael General Election candidate Maria Byrne has said publicly-funded HRT would be a gamechanger for women's health.

Last week, reports emerged that a cost-of-living package worth about €1.5 billion is under consideration as part of Budget 2025 negotiations.

Here, we have a look at the topics likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come

The country has got a windfall of €14.1 billion as a result of an EU court ruling that Apple was given undue tax benefits.

A vast range of issues were raised as politicians returned to Leinster House on Wednesday.

Mr Martin told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland that he supported targeted measures and that there was “a lot more that we can do” to alleviate cost pressures.

Party president Mary Lou McDonald proposed the initiative ahead of her party’s think-in event in Dublin.

The Fianna Fáil leader also criticised ‘half-baked’ childcare proposals.

Minister Paschal Donohoe said the government had been warned about spending more than has already been outlined in Budget 2025.

Jack Chambers said that government was seeking to strike a balance between restraining spending and continuing economic growth.

Plans to defer the Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) have led to a row between coalition partners Fianna Fáil and the Green Party

The Taoiseach said that finance should ‘never be a constraint’ in hiring staff to provide therapies for children with additional needs.

The Irish Heart Foundation said a targeted quitting service was needed to meet the demand of people wanting to quit vaping.

The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland has urged the Government to deliver more affordable housing

Simon Harris said people are ‘still financially hurting’.

Minister Heather Humphreys said that a €20 increase for all social welfare payments would cost €1.5 billion