For Employers
* The lower rate of PRSI will be halved until end-2013 on jobs that pay up to €356 per week, but the cut in the minimum wage will be reversed
* An unspecified package of measures to make credit available to business.
For Construction
* An additional €135 million to invest in "worthwhile and necessary" capital projects as part of its jobs creation strategy. Other capital projects will be delayed.
Tourism
* A new temporary second reduced rate of VAT at 9 per cent will be introduced with effect from July 1st, 2011, until end-December 2013 targeted at services relating to tourism. Plan to cut the lower rate has been shelved.
* The air travel tax rate to be reduced to zero on a date to be fixed by order.
* Reform of visa rules to try and capitalise on visitors to London Olympics.
For The Unemployed
* Around 30,000 new places on skills course and other labour force activation schemes
To Pay For It All
A temporary levy on funded pension schemes and personal pension plans of 0.6 per cent for a period of four years beginning this year and which is intended to raise about €470 million in each of those years.