https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s Details of our new budget en-us 2016-10-11 23:23:23 UTC 2026-02-16 02:03:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pizza.png https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061298 5€ increase to pension
Sugar Tax in 2018
USC reduced by 2.5%
5€ increase in all weekly social welfare payments
Christmas bonus to increase by 85%
2400 additional teaching posts, 900 resource teachers
800 new Gardaí to be recruited in 2017
1000 additional nurses and midwives to be recruited]]> 2016-10-12 09:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061298 https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061370 Cigarettes increase by €0.50 -  €11.50
Penison up by €5 a week. -starts march 1st
Jobseekers benefit: up by €5 a week was €188.]]> 2016-10-12 09:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061370 https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061372 DIRT to be cut 2% for each year for the next four years from 41]]> 2016-10-12 09:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061372 https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061385 pensioners get an extra fiver starting in march instead of 3 euro from the last budget

1.2 billion in funding for housing 
47,000 new social housing units by 2021

new minimum wage of 9.25 per hour instead of 9.15 per hour from budget 2016, starting January 1st 2017

1000 new nurses and midwives to be recruited

800 new gardaí to be recruited]]> 2016-10-12 09:14:50 UTC https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061385 https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061394 Self-employed people's tax credit increased by €400 to €950]]> 2016-10-12 09:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061394 https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061502 U.S.C reduced by 2.5% 
Christmas bonus for those on social welfare payments rise to 85%
Fuel and alcohol: tax unchanged

]]> 2016-10-12 09:15:16 UTC https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061502 https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061586 Reduced 2.5 % USC ( Universal social charge) rate ceiling increased from €18,688 to €18,722
800 New gardaí to be recruited
€319m to be spent on regional and and local roads throughout the country 

]]> 2016-10-12 09:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061586 https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061663 Minimum wage increased to €9.25.
It was €9.15.
Increase is €0.10.]]> 2016-10-12 09:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130061663 https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130062140 €319m to be spent on regional and local roads throughout the country]]> 2016-10-12 09:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/helenfinn13/pxomw98rfj3s/wish/130062140