LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n
The old age pension is set to rise by \u20ac10 in Budget 20261,000 additional childcare placesVat rate expected to be cut to 9pc for the building of new apartments and homes
\n\t\u20ac500 cut in student fees expected <\/p>\n
\tMental-health crisis teams to staff A&Es<\/p>\n
\tUnlikely to be any cut in cost of childcare<\/p>\n
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Junior minister Mary Butler. Photo: Collins<\/p>\n
Mary Regan, Fionn\u00e1n Sheahan, Con\u00e1l Thomas and Kevin Doyle<\/p>\n
Today at 22:00<\/p>\n
A \u20ac10 euro increase in core welfare payments will be announced in tomorrow\u2019s Budget, as talks go down to the wire.<\/p>\n
The Minister for Social Protection, Dara Calleary, has been pushing for a \u20ac12 hike to match last year’s rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 The old age pension is set to rise by \u20ac10 in Budget 20261,000 additional childcare placesVat rate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,5168,5244,943,15049,16570,11977,3414,14313,3775,3774,42,13808,25081,1843,43,774,70,4162,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-64024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-budget","tag-budget-2026","tag-cost-of-living","tag-dail-eireann","tag-dara-calleary","tag-department-of-finance-dof","tag-department-of-health","tag-department-of-social-protection","tag-fine-gael","tag-fionnan-sheahan","tag-headlines","tag-jack-chambers","tag-mary-regan","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-paschal-donohoe","tag-simon-harris","tag-tariffs","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64024","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=64024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}