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The 2025 Irish budget was the Irish Government Budget for the 2025 fiscal year, which was presented to Dáil Éireann on 1 October 2024 by Minister for Finance Jack Chambers, and the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Paschal Donohoe.[1]
| Presented | 1 October 2024 |
|---|---|
| Parliament | 33rd Dáil |
| Government | 34th Government of Ireland |
| Party | |
| Minister for Finance | Jack Chambers (FF) |
| Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform | Paschal Donohoe (FG) |
| Website | Budget 2025 |
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‹ 2024 2026› | |
Cost of living
- Energy credit of €250 for all households to be paid in two equal payments.
- Proposal for the 9% reduced VAT rate for gas and electricity to be extended for another six months to April 2025.
- Further €300 lump sum payment to fuel allowance recipients in November.
Other
- Double payments for some social welfare recipients – €12 increase for those receiving the weekly social protection payment.
- Excise duty on a pack of 20 cigarettes to increase by €1.
- Domestic tax on vapes and e-cigarettes to apply to all e-liquids at rate of 50 cent per ml of e-liquid.
- New 'baby boost' one-off payment of €420 for each newborn child from 1 January.
- Free public transport to be extended to children aged five to eight.
- Free schoolbooks initiative extended up to Leaving Certificate students.
- National minimum wage to increase by 80 cent to €13.50 per hour.
- €7.50 increase on rate of carbon tax on petrol and diesel.
- 495 new beds to health services across hospital and community services.
- Further recruitment of 1,000 Gardaí and up to 150 Garda civilian staff.
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