{"id":74830,"date":"2025-09-20T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/74830\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:37:09","slug":"why-we-can-expect-a-bummer-of-a-budget-and-what-is-likely-to-be-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/74830\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we can expect a \u2018bummer of a budget\u2019 and what is likely to be in it"},"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\">With no election looming, expect to see one-offs pared back amid calls for financial restraint\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will be putting the final touches to Budget 2026. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/115513794.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)\">Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will be putting the final touches to Budget 2026. Photo: Collins<\/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)\">Last year\u2019s budget was a bumper one, coming as it did months before a general election. There were giveaways galore as the government tried to curry favour with the electorate.<\/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 this year is different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With no election looming, expect to see one-offs pared back amid calls for financial restraint Finance Minister Paschal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[10471,51014,10472,79,22767,2107,2190,20617,13458,18,38419,19,17,2108,2090],"class_list":{"0":"post-74830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-budget-2025","10":"tag-budget-2026","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-central-bank-of-ireland","13":"tag-charlie-weston","14":"tag-cost-of-living","15":"tag-credit-unions","16":"tag-darragh-obrien","17":"tag-eire","18":"tag-esri","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-money-experts","22":"tag-pensions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74830","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=74830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}