RTE Business

Budget 2025 contained the highest-ever financial allocation for the Department of Environment as the Government also confirmed an increase in the carbon tax on fossil fuels.

The rate of carbon tax levied on fossil fuels will increase by €7.50 to €63.50 per tonne of carbon dioxide emissions as part of measures announced in Budget 2025 today.

Growth in the domestic economy is predicted to pick up next year, according to Minister for Finance Jack Chambers.

Business group Ibec has welcomed the "ambitious" scale of investment outlined in Budget 2025, particularly in terms of infrastructure and human capital.

The Government has announced a number of supports to help smaller businesses, as part of Budget 2025.

The Government plans to introduce a new tax credit for unscripted programmes as part of Budget 2025.

Minster for Finance Jack Chambers said Budget 2025 will extend several agriculture stock reliefs, including the General Stock Relief, the Stock Relief for Young Trained Farmers and the Stock Relief for Registered Farm Partnerships.

The Minister for Finance has said it was "imperative" that the revenue from the recent Apple tax judgment is not used for day-to-day expenditure or to narrow the tax base.he tax base.

Minister for Finance Jack Chambers has announced increases to the main tax credits - the personal, employee and earned income credits - by €125, along with raising the national minimum wage to €13.50 as part of Budget 2025.

Minister for Finance Jack Chambers said the Help to Buy will be extended to the end of 2029, which he said will give certainty to future home buyers and to the market.

The amount that can a person can receive as a gift or inheritance from a relation before having to pay Capital Acquisitions Tax will be increased as part of Budget 2025.

Minister for Finance Jack Chambers told the Dáil today that carers play a fundamental role in Irish society, adding that the Government is committed to supporting individuals and families with caring responsibilities.

Ryanair has said it has not been affected by an issue flagged by the US National Transportation Safety Board regarding Boeing 737 rudder components that could pose safety risks.

A Leaving Cert supervisor who drove a longer route to work because he said he could not risk getting caught behind silage traffic on back roads on his way to State exams has failed in a legal claim following a three-year row over mileage expenses.

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín has described the 120% increase in projected costs of modular homes as "another bonfire of taxpayers money".

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that 95% of internet users in Ireland went online every day during the first six months of this year.

New figures from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry show that the new electric vehicle market experienced another month of decline in registrations in September - marking the eighth consecutive month of this trend.

The euro zone's annual inflation rate fell to its lowest level in three and a half years in September, dropping below the European Central Bank's 2% target and fuelling expectations of a rate cut.

Euro area inflation slowing down means that there are now more reasons to justify an interest rate cut at the ECB's October policy-setting meeting, Finnish ECB policymaker Olli Rehn said in a speech today.