{"id":42700,"date":"2025-09-25T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/42700\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:24:09","slug":"six-things-we-know-so-far-about-budget-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/42700\/","title":{"rendered":"Six things we know so far about Budget 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Budget 2026. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e143facf-f757-4e7c-a391-6dc71f630c50.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Budget 2026. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Vat reduction for the hospitality sector, a rise in the minimum wage and the end of the \u201cone-off\u201d cost-of-living packages are among the measures being considered for Budget 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The last \u201cbumper Budget\u201d will not be replicated on October 7 amid a period of global economic uncertainty, with the Central Bank and the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council warning against excessive spending. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Budget 2026. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers. A Vat reduction for the hospitality&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,13808,774],"class_list":["post-42700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jack-chambers","tag-paschal-donohoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}