People who get up early were left disappointed by Varadkar. Harris is ready to try again
If you promise to prioritise the people who get up early in the morning, you can’t spend your time delivering breakfast in bed to a bunch of others
Jack Chambers
There is a landmine posing a big danger to next month’s budget
Ministers have raised hopes of a giveaway budget - but events are turning against them
Children and young people need offline support as well as online protection
Budget offers chance to deliver meaningful investment in youth services and youth work
Overspending health regions to be asked to slow hiring after headcount surge
Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said there had been ‘extraordinarily high’ recruitment in the HSE
Jack Chambers rules out equalising inheritance thresholds in budget
Minister for Public Expenditure says equalisation is beyond budget's financial scope
Budget 2027: Simon Harris seeks to reassure middle-income earners on tax cuts
Tánaiste promises cohort will see ‘significant impact’ from planned income tax package
HSE spending controls have ‘not had sufficient impact’, says Minister
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill says scale of projected HSE overspend ‘cannot be explained by demand pressures alone’
‘Disruptive’ Jack Chambers talks tough on HSE overspending and budget negotiations
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Four HSE regions to lose power over day-to-day spending
Jack Chambers criticises ‘completely ineffective management of the control system’ and ‘really poor performance by certain regions’
Move to strip four HSE regions of spending powers is a dramatic Government policy shift
Regionalisation of health administration was a key Government reform but within months financial challenges began to emerge
Bord Gáis puts budget squeeze on Harris and Chambers with price increase
Customers face increase of around 10% in household energy bills within days on Budget 2027
Irish hospitals’ income ‘severely impacted’ by move to public-only contracts, notes confidential HSE report
Internal Health Service Executive paper indicates shortfall of nearly €56m
Policy focus at Fianna Fáil gathering reveals fronts on which Coalition struggling to deliver
Party in better place than it has been at any of its recent think-ins, but big and politically tricky decisions loom
Budget 2027: Jack Chambers plays down expectations of big tax giveaway after Harris comments
Taoiseach warns one-off cost-of-living payments can erode ability to tackle longer term issues, including childcare
We must honour Donogh O’Malley’s legacy by cutting school class sizes
More than 425,000 pupils are in oversized classes, yet we have lost almost 500 teachers
HSE team set up to address overspend at Naas hospital amid fears of possible €41m deficit
Spending from January to March 2026 suggests a deficit for the year of €41m
Threat of public sector industrial action ‘completely unwarranted’ – Chambers
Minister for Public Expenditure made the remarks while insisting the Government wants a ‘fair’ public pay deal
Commuters to face increased fares on buses and trains
Rising cost of State funding for public services has been a spending concern for some time
Impact of levy to cover education spending overrun bemoaned by Department of Enterprise
Jack Chambers, who is imposing the levy, said his department would suppress roles and cut spending on consultancy and research to find savings
What fuel excise duty cuts and drug funding decisions indicate for Budget 2027
Decisions on funding drug for Friedreich’s Ataxia and rubber-stamping cuts to excise duty a likely inducement for costly politiking
‘Nothing underhanded’ in department’s changes to data centre report, says Burke
Minister delivers cost of business advisory forum’s final report
Early access to all drugs for rare diseases is pie in sky unless we tax to pay for it
The row over Skyclarys, a new drug for Friedreich’s ataxia patients, was the political story of the week
Madonna should invite Micheál Martin over for dinner – they have a lot in common
After all, both performers continue to flourish despite being in the twilight of gilded careers
Details of Taoiseach’s correspondence with tech giant Apple withheld on security grounds
Some of the world’s biggest technology companies lobbied the Government on AI and online safety before Ireland’s EU presidency
Freeze minimum wage until 2030, urges business advisory group
In budget submission, Azets also calls on Government to introduce €5bn investment fund for small business
Encouraging public servants to take more risks is a terrible idea
The public service compensates for its technical shortcomings with seemingly unlimited recourse to expensive external consultants
The Irish Times view on planning and climate: pointing in the wrong direction
Which projects have actually been stopped by Section 15 of the Climate Act?
The Dunsink plan shows Ireland has a lesson to learn from the Soviets
Objections to Dunsink are not about what’s in the plan. They’re about what’s missing
Irish Fiscal Advisory Council warns of ‘sizeable’ budgetary overruns
Latest exchequer data shows Government spending rose by 7.4% to €65 billion in first seven months of year
Multinationals paid additional €1bn in July as new 15% tax rate kicks in
Government has collected €59.6bn in tax to date in 2026, up €1.6bn on same period last year
Are middle earners getting gouged by the tax system here?
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
Climate Act curbs could be considered to avert infrastructure ‘paralysis’, Chambers says
Comment comes after news Department of Public Expenditure officials proposed scrapping ‘linchpin’ of climate legislation
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