Battles over the cost of bike sheds returned to the Dail on Tuesday with the Micheal Martin and Mary Lou McDonald caught up in a heated exchange

The Finance Minister has insisted his resistance to tax breaks for developers is ‘unchanged’ after his party leader said he was ‘open’ to the move.

The Tánaiste was speaking as Fine Gael held its annual think-in at a hotel in Co Westmeath.

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

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

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