Uncertainty around tariffs is “problematic” for Budget preparations and medium-term fiscal planning, the Taoiseach has said.

The Sinn Féin leader said the Government will be throwing struggling families ‘under the bus’ in October’s budget.

The Dáil will rise ahead of the summer recess on Thursday and will not be due to return until September 17th.

Tánaiste Simon Harris said that he was not convinced there was a need for a ‘significant rise in the dole’.

The student contribution fee has been temporarily reduced for the past three years as part of cost-of-living packages accompanying the budget.

There are ‘dark clouds on the horizon’, the Tanaiste warned, as looming US tariffs influenced discussions at the National Economic Dialogue.

Deputy John Clendennen was speaking after Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said the nine per cent rate will be announced at the next Budget.

Micheál Martin ruled out continuing cost-of-living support payments.

The prospect of the Treasury withdrawing an offer to write off a £559 million debt appears to have receded.

Chief executive Michael O’Leary said a planned rise in air passenger duty would make air travel ‘much more expensive’.

Stormont finance minister Caoimhe Archibald said while the settlement was encouraging, it was not enough to plug a projected funding gap.

It came as C and C Group revealed lower sales for the past half-year as poor summer weather hit demand for cider.

The Commons heard NHS waiting times in Northern Ireland are the longest in the UK and public services are ‘in crisis’ because of a lack of funding.

The responsibility for calling a general election falls to the Taoiseach.

Holly Cairns said ministers have tried to ‘splash cash around indiscriminately’.

Social Democrats TD Cian O’Callaghan said the payments were a ‘blatant attempt to buy’ an election.

The Economic and Social Research Institute calculated that over the last five budgets households are worse off by about 0.7 per cent of disposable income.

The watchdog also said that only half of the Government’s 2.1 billion euro of cost-of-living measures were targeted.

Taoiseach Simon Harris said he is not ‘going to provide a running commentary on’ the timing of the election.

Minister for Finance Jack Chambers said Budget 2025 has ‘the common good at its core’

He said that seven teachers around his age plan to go overseas after Christmas

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council said the ‘very large’ Budget package will add pressures and widen the underlying deficit

Regina Bushell of Grovelands Childcare said the budget contained ‘perks’ for parents but little for providers

Vinod Bajaj said the government needs to set out a clear pension plan for the years ahead.

Labour, the Social Democrats and Solidarity-People Before Profit heavily criticised Budget 2025.

Bulelani Mfaco became involved in the campaign to end direct provision after arriving in Ireland as an asylum seeker from South Africa in 2017.

Will Monaghan, who owns two businesses in Dublin, said it was a budget ‘for an election, a budget for the individual’.

One-off measures should be replaced with meaningful action, a student representative has said.

Fiona Kearney said there is a need for targeted supports to address child poverty rather than universal benefits like double child benefit payments.

The past year ‘has been one of the toughest in agriculture’, father of four Bill O’Keeffe said.

Tipperary farmer Garrett O’Brien says the cost-of-living package was ‘a help but it’s not going to make a whole lot of difference’.

Marianna Broughan, 37, lives in a rented property in Athy, Co Kildare with her five-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son.

Maurice Deverell, who lives in Dun Laoghaire, said there has been a significant decline in the number of landlords in the last two years.

The biggest budget in the history of the State has been unveiled, the last before an upcoming General Election.

Ireland now has one of Europe's healthiest sets of public finances. But how does the Government spend the money?

Popular energy credits, a €420 ‘baby boost’, and how the Government will spend Apple billions are to be announced on Tuesday afternoon.

The budget will take place on Tuesday.

Coalition leaders and senior Ministers were engaged in high-level negotiations on Sunday night, ahead of the Budget on Tuesday.

The figures do not include measures to be announced in the Budget on Tuesday.

The IPOA is urging the Government to introduce tax reforms and review current rental regulations to address the mass departure of property owners from the rental market.

The Taoiseach hinted at measures being taken in the budget in October to tackle child poverty.

Micheál Martin also dismissed any idea he might be considering retirement.

The Finance Minister said that energy credits would be a ‘strong component’ of the cost-of-living package.