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There is friction in Cabinet between Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe who is generally reassuringly sceptical of new tax expenditures for developers and prefers targeted, time-limited or “activation” taxes; Fianna Fáil can’t help itself from championing subsidies/reliefs alongside state delivery.Meanwhile VAT on apartments is to be cut to 9% and the Help to Buy scheme extended. It’s all utterly unradical in the fact of a recognised crisis of quantity and an untold crisis of quality.

Government will tweak
income-tax bands again
in October, but don’t
expect pole-dancing and
it will quietly take a little
back is PRSI

warm but steely politician with a cultural hinterland and proud of her big family and Council-estate roots; a Republican who’s not backing down on Hamas, equality, the environment or anything else

Dublin City Council must not sell out the public domain of a vulnerable community off St Stephen’s Green to facilitate RCSI branding, but defer to elected representatives and finally assert the public interest

Immigrant-student employees at Conor McGregor’s pub speak out about dubious legality of their employment and being allowed to work more than 20 hours in term time

Procedural issues and differences
of emphasis among the relatives are
delaying the substantive hearings

Nobody cares about SIPO, least of all RTÉ and the Irish Times, as evidenced by coverage of its hearings, especially the recent one finding FF’s Meath Cathaoirleach, Tommy Reilly, attended meetings that yielded his son a €3.7m book profit.

Norma Foley, Leo Varadkar and other Ministers, quoting Bus Éireann and the Department of Education, have misled the Dáil on dozens of occasions about school-transport finances