{"id":84721,"date":"2025-09-25T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/84721\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:59:08","slug":"six-things-we-know-so-far-about-budget-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/84721\/","title":{"rendered":"Six things we know so far about Budget 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Budget 2026. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e143facf-f757-4e7c-a391-6dc71f630c50.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)\">Budget 2026. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers.<\/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)\">A Vat reduction for the hospitality sector, a rise in the minimum wage and the end of the \u201cone-off\u201d cost-of-living packages are among the measures being considered for Budget 2026.<\/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)\">The last \u201cbumper Budget\u201d will not be replicated on October 7 amid a period of global economic uncertainty, with the Central Bank and the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council warning against excessive spending. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Budget 2026. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers. A Vat reduction for the hospitality&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,26736,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-84721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jack-chambers","13":"tag-paschal-donohoe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84721","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=84721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}