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The government's levy aimed at offsetting increased spending in the disability sector will result in a reduction of funding for key state agencies including Uisce Éireann, IDA Ireland, and Fáilte Ireland. This decision highlights the challenges of balancing competing demands for public resources ahead of the next budget.
Micheál Martin’s to face questions from Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats on Wednesday Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers will have to balance competing demands from Ministers in the weeks before the next budget.
Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish TimesOur politics team's behind-the-scenes take on events of the day. Sent Monday to Friday when the Dáil is in sessionTo paraphrase what former Fianna Fáil minister Conor Lenihan famously said about his party’s 2016 election resurgence – they’re baa-aack!
And with TDs returning en masse to Leinster House, the Inside Politics newsletter is also back in business every morning the Dáil is meeting.on Monday looking at Donald Trump’s visit at the weekend, with the US president’s supportive messages for – Irish – republicans and whiskey. But full service with a round-up of the big political developments and stories, what to expect during the day in Leinster House, and occasional early-morning hot takes fuelled by not enough coffee is resuming.
Government levy will impact funding for Uisce Éireann, IDA, Fáilte IrelandAside from a brief visit to the Dáil chamber by TDs at the end of August to defer fuel price increases, it was a long summer of fairly limited political action. Ireland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union has been motoring along, with meetings resuming after a break in August.
Updates on progress in efforts to reach a deal on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2027-2034, though important, will not set too many hearts racing, even among the most dedicated political obsessives. – with controversy-struck TD Eoin Hayes missing the press conference – and the rest took place over the last week and a half.on the think-ins from the weekend, “with no election on the horizon, there is a sense of uneasy stability about Irish politics right now.
It seems kind of static”. The budget is mere weeks away. Income tax cuts and help with childcare and the costs faced by people with disabilities are expected, but perhaps not much else is.
How will the Government respond if fuel costs remain high come budget day?to the new Dáil term, the coming weeks will be intense and are likely to be fractious within Government, as Ministers wrestle with the Department of Public Expenditure and its Minister, Jack Chambers, over their allocations for next year.may be the Government’s top priority but getting homes built in a timely pace remains a huge challenge. As Eoin Burke Kennedy reports intoday, the Central Bank says building a home in Ireland now takes twice as long as it did a decade ago – four years instead of two – because of the State’s dysfunctional planning system.
Dozens of European leaders will descend on Dublin in November for EU and European Political Community meetings.how barristers have urged him to engage further, while he has told solicitors he will not be appointing a mediator.are among the State agencies and bodies that will lose out on funding due to a Government levy aimed at offsetting increased spending in thehow MetroLink could cost up to €17.5 billion to deliver under a cost estimate to be considered by the Government today. Dáil proceedings resume with Leaders’ Questions.
Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats and one of the members of the Independent Technical Group will have an opportunity to quiz the Taoiseach at noon. Government business in the afternoon is a second stage debate on the An Garda Síochána Bill 2026.and the triple lock and it will be debated from 7.32pm.
The party is opposed to Government proposals to scrap the triple lock on deploying Irish soldiers overseas to get rid of the need for United Nations approval for missions. Seanad Éireann does not resume until Tuesday, September 22nd, but Oireachtas committees are open for business again.
The Justice Committee was actually back yesterday to hear from Garda representative organisations and senior gardaí will be before the Committee on Justice from 3pm as it continues to examine the issue of Garda pursuits. Hugh Dooley has a report on yesterday’s proceedingsToday the Committee on Health will conduct detailed scrutiny of the Health Amendment Bill 2026 put forward by Sinn Féin earlier this year to get rid of the waiting time for women seekingThe National Transport Authority can probably expect some tough questioning before the Transport Committee on the recent announcement of impending public transport fare increases.
The meeting starts at 10am. At 12.30pm the Committee on Education will look at education and training requirements for teachers regarding inclusive education. Representatives of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and the Central Bank will be at the Committee on Budgetary Oversight from 6.30pm for pre-Budget 2027 engagement. Government levy will impact funding for Uisce Éireann, IDA, Fáilte IrelandIrish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga quit Ed Sheeran’s US tour in protest over Palestine
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