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Paschal Donohoe to meet with US finance heavyweights on trip to Washington

Eurogroup president will meet with Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell in discussions centred around European and US economic outlooks

Shane Coleman: State must stop writing blank cheques to avoid another crash

We must stop repeatedly over-spending and make a plan as to how we will pay for our ageing population and foot the bill for climate change

Health ‘hung out to dry’ by poor budget forecasting, says Ifac

Head of the budgetary regulation agency describes failure to accurately predict cost increases and overspends as ‘alarming’

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Editorial: It’s time to put an end to wishful thinking on budget spends

Supplementary estimates are a normal part of the budgetary processes but constantly underestimating the amounts required undermines credibility

Unions take aim at Paschal Donohoe as public sector pay talks to begin this week

Irish Congress of Trade Unions expresses ‘disappointment’ at minister’s claim that crash-era pay rules had no influence on public sector industrial relations

‘Majority’ of state capital projects will go ahead despite inflation funding gap - Donohoe

The National Development Plan committed €160 billion to 2030 for major state projects, but inflation has left the plan underfunded

Public Spending

Government approves €6 billion in department bailouts for 2023

Health to receive €960 million bailout, Social Protection €1.1 billion, and education €850 million

RTÉ pay packages must align with similar public service exit schemes, Donohoe warns

Broadcaster plans to offer payments worth up to two years’ salary in a bid to cut 400 staff

Firms with over 50 staff must establish whistleblowing protection procedures within next month

All public bodies regardless of size must have internal reporting channels

public sector pay deal

Fempi laws have had ‘no influence’ on industrial relations in public sector, says Donohoe

Trade unions seeking clarification on role of contentious legislation ahead of public sector pay negotiations

TV licence should remain core part of RTE funding, says spending minister

Matt Cooper: A one-size-fits-all public sector pay deal no longer makes sense

Unions are seeking flexibility to address issues affecting specific groups of workers

Concerns mount over ‘huge holes’ in budgets as NDP talks set to begin

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council warns €19 billion shortfall in government’s capital budget could force projects to be delayed or axed

Lucinda Creighton: Ireland must stop treating European Parliament as consolation prize for failed or retiring TDs

With the European Elections coming up next June, FG will have its work cut out replacing the influential Frances Fitzgerald, but a sure winner would be Paschal Donohoe, if he was so inclined

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Editorial: Alarm bells on economy will force difficult choices on government

Exchequer returns show a 45 per cent drop in corporation tax and a swing into deficit to the tune of €900m

Daniel McConnell: Just one in four think USC cuts went far enough in Budget 2024

Red C poll findings show people want to see the back of the much-hated austerity tax

McGrath seeks ‘industrial peace’ as €2.7bn pay talks with public sector unions ramp up

Public expenditure minister Paschal Donohoe prepares to begin talks with the unions in the coming weeks as current deal will expire at the end of the year

Health service heads into 2024 from ‘very constrained financial’ place - Bernard Gloster

HSE chief executive lays out resourcing strategy for next year amid budget fallout

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Editorial: After nearly 20 years, farcical funding of HSE must be addressed

Multi-annual budgeting of health is needed or omnishambles of overruns and shortfalls will continue

Big Read: Ministers at war over €22.5bn health budget

Row between Department of Health, HSE and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform about this year’s estimated €1.5 billion health overspend has been brewing for some time