Alliance seeks ringfenced budget to allow for greater flexibility in housing aid payments
Paschal Donohoe: he is set to increase excise duty on cigarettes and impose a tax on sugary drinks from April 2018 Independent Alliance Ministers are to seek a restoration of the bereavement grant and an increase in gambling tax in Budget 2018 .
The group, which includes Minister for Transport Shane Ross and Minister of State for Health Finian McGrath, is to meet Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe this week to discuss next month’s budget.The other two Independent Ministers will also seek increases in their departmental allocations. […]
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