Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been at loggerheads all week following Minister Lawless’ admission on RTÉ’s This Week, suggesting that as there would be no cost-of-living package in Budget 2026, the €1 ...

The Budget is still months away but the government is already deliberating on what measures they may roll out when they ...

Simon Harris said ‘health and safety should be the only grounds for the delay of the giving out of a local authority home’.

There is “merit” in unemployment benefit not rising at the same rate as other social welfare payments, the Tánaiste has said.Fine Gael leader Simon Harris said that he was not convinced there was a ...

There is “merit” in unemployment benefit not rising at the same rate as other social welfare payments, the Tanaiste has said. Fine Gael leader Simon Harris said that he was not convinced there was a ...

The student contribution fee has been temporarily reduced for the past three years as part of cost-of-living packages accompanying the budget.

Addressing recent debate around the earmarked increase in student college fees next year, Harris claimed that “roughly €1.20 ...

Tánaiste Simon Harris has suggested that the rate for those receiving Jobseeker's Benefit should not increase as much as the ...

Tánaiste Simon Harris has defended not permanently cutting college fees for students when he was Further and Higher Education Minister. James Lawless, the Fianna Fáil Minister who currently holds that ...

The Government appears split on spending plans ahead of Budget 2026. Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said economic forecasts the ...

A senator has called for the relocated Cork passport office to be equipped with machines capable of printing the travel documents. Fine Gael senator Eileen Lynch, a former Macroom councillor, has ...

Postgraduate student and Sinn Féin party member Daithí Fitzgerald said the government’s reversal of the €1,000 reduction in college fees is a calculated attack on young people. Minister for Higher ...