Ged Nash | Business Post

Revenue to collect vacant homes tax from 8,000 households

Labour TD says tariff has ‘all the hallmarks of a token tax’ as just 15 per cent of registered owners will have to pay due to exemption rules

The opposition responds: ‘Uncaring’ budget ‘failed to give people certainty’

Faced with such a widely aimed response to the country’s challenges, Sinn Féin focused its attention on the old reliables of health, housing and the treatment of those on lower and middle-incomes

Labour’s Nash calls for grace on missed payments during bank switchovers

The Labour Party’s finance spokesman says anomalies should not be reported to CCR for ‘three or four months’, to give leeway for errors and delays

Housing Agency vacant property fund falling short of target

Number of acquisitions decreased each year due to ‘reducing availability of suitable units from banks and equity funds,’ Department of Housing says

ICTU boss says industrial action ‘inevitable’ if pay deal unaltered

Kevin Callinan, president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, said current agreement wasn’t ‘fit for purpose’ following leap in inflation

Highest civil service post only open to those in the sector

The government will not seek applications from the private sector to succeed top mandarin Martin Fraser when he leaves the job later this year

New CSO ‘wellbeing dashboard’ will include high housing costs

The Central Statistics Office has been developing a new way of measuring quality of life beyond economic figures

Donohoe says sale of bank stakes may take several market cycles

Minister for Finance says that while the government did not envisage the state being a long-term investor in the banking sector, neither did it see itself divesting its full shareholding for some time

Donohoe under pressure to allow outsiders apply for top Finance job

Department’s €212,000-a-year secretary general post restricted to civil service candidates as a ‘level one’ appointment

Limiting applicants to top Department of Finance job ‘brings us back to the bad old days’

Government ‘intent on producing its own version of Reeling in the Years’ by not opening applications to those outside the civil service, according to Ged Nash