{"id":103305,"date":"2025-10-04T21:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103305\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:49:12","slug":"a-lot-of-middle-income-people-like-myself-need-help-with-rising-costs-workers-share-their-hopes-and-fears-for-budget-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103305\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A lot of middle-income people, like myself, need help with rising costs\u2019 \u2013 workers share their hopes and fears for Budget 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">People tell us what measures they would like to see\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Auctioneer Bernadette Denby. Photograph: Patrick Browne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6e452f54-9b21-4f48-985e-816abdcfea71.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Auctioneer Bernadette Denby. Photograph: Patrick Browne<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On Tuesday, October 7, the Government will reveal the details of Budget 2026. With a package of around \u20ac9.4bn, split between \u20ac7.9bn in public spending and \u20ac1.5bn in tax measures, it is likely that we will hear about investment in housing, pension reform and taxation of investments, among other things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But what will this mean for the public? We spoke to people around the country to ask their thoughts on the budget and what they hope will and won\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People tell us what measures they would like to see Auctioneer Bernadette Denby. Photograph: Patrick Browne On Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[10472,79,2190,18,19,17,3888],"class_list":{"0":"post-103305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-budget-2026","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cost-of-living","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-savings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}