“The extent of this repair work is not fully scoped at this stage.”
If you are looking for any idea of how this project came to be, then you will not find it in the report issued by the OPW this morning.
Breaking our own fiscal rules; expecting others to subsidise our defence; lecturing the rest of the EU on foreign policy. It’s a bad combination.
He joked that the project ultimately cost €18.4m
The Irish government’s spending has increased by almost 50% in the space of 5 years
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They shouldn’t do tax cuts at all: They should do tax rebates. And they should do them in January.
“Much of” the extra Covid spending remains in the budget today.
More money does not equal better services.
In the past couple of years, do you ever get the feeling that Ireland has just lurched from one blinding panic to another like a cat on a hot tin roof? If so, you definitely aren’t imagining it. Don’t get me wrong: basically every country on earth freaked out about Covid and was hurt by […]
It is genuinely remarkable how quickly Ireland, and Irish politicians, and, most importantly, Irish voters, have forgotten what happened to the country in 2008.
The Houses of the Oireachtas Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has confirmed that spending on Direct Provision accommodation is expected to increase to over €229 million in 2021. This represents a €21 million increase on the spending allocated for 2020. The details are contained in the PBO analysis of the Government’s proposal to Dáil Éireann […]