{"id":524500,"date":"2026-06-29T17:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524500\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:47:18","slug":"minister-confident-hospitality-vat-cuts-will-benefit-clares-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524500\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Confident Hospitality VAT Cuts Will Benefit Clare&#8217;s Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Junior Minister for Employment claims Clare\u2019s economy will reap the benefits of a reduction to the hospitality VAT rate coming into effect on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hairdressers, restaurants, cafes and takeaways will have their rate cut from 13.5% to 9% from July 1st.<\/p>\n<p>It comes amid a meeting of coalition leaders tonight which will decide whether excise cuts on Petrol and Diesel will be extended.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of State at the Department of Trade Enterprise and Employment Alan Dillon has been telling Clare FM\u2019s Daragh Dolan a fair decision will be made.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full interview here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Junior Minister for Employment claims Clare\u2019s economy will reap the benefits of a reduction to the hospitality&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-524500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524500","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=524500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}