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Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Among other changes, I am announcing an additional €25 million in the National Treatment Purchase Fund and will reduce prescription charges for all persons by 50 cent.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The monthly threshold for the drug payment scheme is being reduced by €10 per month and I am increasing medical card income thresholds for people over 70 by €50 for a single person or €150 for a couple per week. This will benefit up to 56,000 citizens.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Following the success of the roll-out of free GP care to under-sixes, the Government intends to expand, from September, free GP care to children under eight and free dental care for children under six.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: These changes represent important cost-of-living reductions for the most vulnerable in our society. To provide support for older people to be cared for in their own homes instead of in hospital or residential care settings, 1 million additional home care hours will be provided in 2020.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Funding to support the Sláintecare implementation strategy will include a ring-fenced Sláintecare integration fund of €20 million, a €12 million care redesign fund, as well as new investment to improve and enhance community healthcare services with the recruitment of up to 1,000 therapists, nurses and other healthcare professionals. Tobacco I am increasing excise duty...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: This will bring the price of cigarettes in the most popular price category to €13.50. EDUCATION Education is another area that has been prioritised by this Government. Over €11 billion will be provided to the Department of Education and Skills in 2020. This is the highest ever allocation to the sector and an increase of nearly €2 billion since 2016. Within this...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: We will have more SNAs in schools than ever before. I am also providing funding for a schools package, including supports for small schools, increases in the standard and enhanced capitation rates and additional funding for school books in primary schools. Additional funding of €190 million has been invested into the higher and further education and training sector since 2018....

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: In addition, extra civilian staff will allow more trained gardaí to return to front-line policing. I am allocating an additional €39 million in current expenditure to the broader justice sector, an increase of 4.8%. This will fund increasing costs in direct provision and greater levels of activity in the Courts Service and the Prison Service. In addition, the Abhaile scheme has...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: -----in increasingly diverse areas. Extension of relief for farm restructuring As such, and subject to state aid approval, I am extending the farm restructuring relief, introduced in budget 2013, to the end of 2022, with no change to the conditions of the relief. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Agriculture and rural development are cornerstones of our economy. They support so many...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Conscious of the particular impact that a no-deal Brexit will have on our rural economy, the Government stands ready to further increase the level of investment already in place. TOURISM The tourism sector is another key part of our economy, rooted in communities and supporting rural job creation. It has been performing very well in recent years. A record 10.6 million visitors from...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: This funding includes a portion of the 2020 carbon tax revenues to support the sector. From this, I am providing €9 million for sustainable mobility projects around the country, including for greenways and new urban cycling projects.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am allocating an additional €3 million for electric vehicle infrastructure. This will double the number of local authority on-street charge points that will be installed in 2020-----

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: -----support a new scheme to install communal charging points at apartment blocks and facilitate the roll-out of fast charging points to taxi ranks at transport hubs around the country. In addition, €8 million will be allocated to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment to maintain grants for individuals purchasing electric cars. These measures represent...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: House price increases are moderating and Government policies are helping but more needs to be done. We will also continue to engage with the credit union movement on appropriate mechanisms for it to establish a vehicle-----

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: -----to invest in approved housing bodies. Homelessness Despite the significant investment in homelessness in the past couple of years, the numbers in receipt of homeless services of course remains too high. Therefore, I am allocating a further €20 million for homeless services, bringing total funding to €166 million in 2020. This will provide support to citizens in emergency...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: -----including Bord na Móna and the relevant unions, and will work closely with the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, and with a local task force. Investment of this scale in energy efficiency will support more than 400 environmentally sustainable jobs, with up to 100 more jobs through expanded peatlands rehabilitation. Other climate related tax changes In relation to...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: -----to increase the price of carbon from €20 today to €80 per tonne by 2030. This would raise an additional €6 billion that could be invested in decarbonising our economy while also protecting the most vulnerable from the increases in living costs associated with the carbon change. I know that this will not be easy for everyone.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Therefore, instead of a larger increase in any one year, I am committed to a €6 increase as a first step towards this target. It is the Government’s intention and my ambition to increase this steadily to meet the 2030 target. This increase will apply from midnight tonight to auto fuels but its application to other fuels will be delayed until May 2020, after the winter heating...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: -----deliver new environmental schemes in Irish food and agriculture; and invest in our low-carbon future. Investing in our low carbon future We know that climate disruption is already impacting our country. In the midlands in particular, job losses are already being experienced. Midlands communities understandably feel very threatened by the potential closure of Bord Na Móna and...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The sequencing and deployment of the balance of the €390 million of Brexit contingency funding will be determined closer to the time. This funding will assist our farms, businesses and citizens should a no-deal Brexit happen. Alongside this, €365 million will also be provided for extra social protection expenditure to support those at risk of losing their jobs or who have lost...