Budget 2027: Jack Chambers Announces String of Social Welfare Changes

'An insult' and 'more Westlife than Fontaines DC': The opposition has laid into the budget

The Social Democrats’ Cian O’Callaghan called it “totally devoid of ambition”.

Budget 2027: Weekly Social Welfare Rate Sees €10 Increase

The Department of Social Protection has received a record €30.9 billion as part of Budget 2027, the headline change being a €10 increase in weekly social welfare rates for groups like pensioners, jobseekers and carers.

Budget 2027: Jack Chambers announces string of social welfare changes

Simon Harris has just delivered his first budget as Minister for Finance alongside Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers. The annual Budget was delivered inside Dáil Éireann on Tuesday afternoon, with €8.5bn worth of measures announced. This includes €1.5bn in permanent tax cuts and €7bn in additional public spending. Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers and Finance Minister Simon Harris at Government Buildings ahead of Budget 2027…

Budget 2027: Social welfare rates to rise by €10 a week as disability supports increase

The measures include increases to welfare rates, Fuel Allowance and Living Alone Allowance, alongside targeted child poverty supports

As it happened: Budget 2027 announced by ministers

The Government unveiled Budget 2027 in the Dáil today. Here is how the day unfolded, from the build-up to the speeches and all of the political and industry fallout.