Tag: department of finance
about 1 year ago
independent.ie

Too big to fail: So what now for the civil servant they call ‘Minister Robert Watt’?

It is possible that had Robert Watt taken a different path in life, he might have found himself on the other side of ...

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over 1 year ago
independent.ie

Ministers agree to bankers’ bonuses as substandard customer services cited

Ministers signed off on bankers’ bonuses after being told banks are offering substandard products and services to cus...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Revealed: Civil Service plans to vacate 10 of its buildings by 2030

Ten public sector buildings could be vacated in the next eight years as the civil service cuts its office space for t...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Stormont warned UK Treasury won’t give ‘warm welcome’ to pleas for additional NI funds

A senior Northern Ireland economist has claimed the UK Treasury would not give politicians here a “warm welcome” if t...

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over 1 year ago
independent.ie

Coalition parties in last-minute scramble to seal €14bn Budget deal

The Government will unveil an unprecedented €14 billion Budget package on Tuesday — but ministers were last night scr...

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over 1 year ago
independent.ie

Budget 2023: Jitters as D-Day looms

For over a decade Pearse Doherty has used budget day as an opportunity to loudly and passionately excoriate the gover...

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over 1 year ago
independent.ie

Revealed: The parts of Budget 2023 that are still not agreed two days out, and the rows that are ...

The Government will unveil an unprecedented €14 billion Budget package on Tuesday — but ministers were last night scr...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: There’s a moral hazard around restoring devolution as Unionists know Westminster wil...

Two decades into the reign of Queen Victoria, Karl Marx lamented how the process of setting her government’s spending...

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almost 2 years ago
independent.ie

Paschal Donohoe 'blindsided' by AIB as showdown over cashless plan looms

AIB will be told by the Taoiseach to delay plans to remove cash facilities from 70 of its branches at a showdown meet...

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almost 2 years ago
independent.ie

Government minister tells AIB to halt decision to go cashless at 70 branches nationwide

Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys has called on AIB to halt the decision to go cashless at 70 branches nat...

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almost 2 years ago
independent.ie

AIB climbs down over plans to remove cash services from 70 branches due to ‘public unease’

AIB has reversed its decision to make 70 branches into cashless facilities after a massive backlash.

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almost 2 years ago
independent.ie

Civil service is ‘overlooking candidates from ethnic minorities’

Not a single applicant from the private sector or from an ethnic minority was recommended for appointment to the seni...

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almost 2 years ago
independent.ie

Double payment of an ‘autumn bonus’ on the way for pensioners and social-welfare recipients

One week’s extra payment of the state pension and social welfare to 1.4 million people this autumn is being considere...

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Covid scheme: Just half of £8 million wrongly paid to businesses recovered since last year, admit...

Only half of an £8.6m sum wrongly paid out by the Department of Finance under a scheme for businesses hit by Covid lo...

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about 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Michelle O’Neill declines to endorse the man appointed chief vet while she was DAERA minister

Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill has refused to say that she has confidence in Northern Ireland’s chief vet, Robert Huey ...

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about 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Whistleblower scandal: head of Civil Service won’t intervene in vet row

The head of the Civil Service has refused to intervene in the scandal over an official who forced another civil serva...

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about 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

‘Nowhere near good enough...’ Rishi Sunak's spring statement gets cool reception from Conor Murph...

Finance Minister Conor Murphy has joined business groups to accuse Chancellor Rishi Sunak of falling to do enough to ...

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about 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Economy is being distorted by Invest NI focusing on Belfast, claims MLA

Under-fire economic development agency Invest NI supported 1,656 jobs in Belfast in 2020, compared to 146 in Foyle, f...

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about 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride on Ukraine crisis: As globalisation unravels, Northern Ireland will pay a cost - but ...

It’s a long way to Kyiv. Just as it was a long way to Wuhan and it’s a long way to Taipei — and that’s the point.

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about 2 years ago
irishmirror.ie

Families on the brink of food poverty as Government rakes in €3b more VAT than in 2020

Exclusive: Soaring energy costs, rising food prices and an increase slapped on nearly everything lately, from insuran...

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about 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: MLAs Jim Wells and Steve Aiken cleared of ‘bullying’ top civil servant who complaine...

A cross-party Stormont committee has rejected a series of findings by the Assembly’s standards commissioner that two ...

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over 2 years ago
irishtimes.com

State supports helped save small firms during Covid crisis - study

Without aid the distress rate of companies would have been 72 % higher, paper reveals

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over 2 years ago
irishtimes.com

Pandemic triggers 50% rise in loss-making firms, study estimates

Without aid the distress rate of companies would have been 72 % higher, paper reveals

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Northern Ireland woman to head up Boris parties inquiry after Cabinet Secretary steps aside

A former top Northern Ireland civil servant has been drafted in to lead an investigation into lockdown-busting partie...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Former top NI civil servant to head up Boris parties inquiry after Cabinet Secretary steps aside

A former top Northern Ireland civil servant has been drafted in to lead an investigation into lockdown-busting partie...

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over 2 years ago
independent.ie

Covid payments: Do they support zombie businesses?

Over several fraught and frantic days in March 2020, Revenue and the Department of Finance devised an imperfect unive...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP Spad Emma Little-Pengelly was paid £20k when her role ended after Arlene Foster exit

A departing DUP special adviser received a severance payment running to thousands of pounds after her role ended this...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP Spad Emma Little-Pengelly paid £20k when role ended after Arlene Foster exit

A departing DUP special adviser received a severance payment running to thousands of pounds after her role ended this...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: Rates law being rammed through Assembly will have huge implications

Next week the Assembly will vote on whether to rush through a piece of almost unknown retrospective legislation which...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sunak’s extra £1.6bn ‘won’t fix Northern Ireland’s broken public services’

The extra £1.6n promised to the Executive in the Budget will not tackle the challenges faced by local public services...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: A scandal within a scandal: Just one RHI official disciplined — and several promoted

On the afternoon of February 15, 2016, DUP minister Jonathan Bell stood to his feet in the Northern Ireland Assembly ...

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over 2 years ago
irishtimes.com

Sales of electric cars rise as industry calls for incentives to remain

Number of new cars registered fall in September but is up 19.1% for first nine months

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over 2 years ago
irishtimes.com

State needs to ‘rethink fiscal policy and halt giveaways’

Commentator Chris Johns also says now is time for radical State investments

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over 2 years ago
irishtimes.com

Government warned against increasing excise on cigarettes

Department of Finance paper suggests it could lead to increased importations

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over 2 years ago
irishtimes.com

Better tax relief for remote workers seen as hard to justify - report

Change would not affect trend on home working but could transfer employer costs to the State

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over 2 years ago
irishtimes.com

Better tax relief for remote workers hard to justify – report

Change would not affect trend on home working but could transfer employer costs to State

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