Budget 2017: A little for everyone - gains for business, builders and farmers

Tax avoidance measures to target vulture funds; Health, childcare, self-employed to benefit

Michael Noonan: the finance minister is unlikely to be moved unless his health becomes a factor Picture: Bloomberg

Small tax cuts, pension and welfare increases, as well as extra supports for the self-employed, businesses and rural Ireland are part of a €1.2 billion budget package.

But what is being described as the “most complex” budget process ever is being held up by a number of last-minute disputes.

The Sunday Business Post has learned that Minister ...