John Paul Phelan, TD

Budget 2024’s retention of the three electricity credits will be welcome news in all households, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

It is vital that there is a package that relieves the tax burden on workers in Tuesday’s Budget, building on progress made by Fine Gael in government over the past eight years in particular, a Fine Gael TD has said.

A Fine Gael Senator has called on the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform to further engage with the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to negotiate and resolve a myriad of issues surrounding pay and terms and conditions in Section 39 organisations.

Full time carers of children and people with a disability need to be recognised in Budget 2024, two Fine Gael Senators have said.

A new funding package, worth €2.38 million, will guarantee the short-term security and long-term viability of horticultural growers, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

Pensioners who have worked all their lives and contributed to the wellbeing of this country will be shunned in favour of others by Sinn Féin, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

Sinn Féin’s grand plans to make home ownership easier for people contain punitive proposals that would increase costs and obliterate vital schemes, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

The Sinn Féin alternative budget is a throw-away budget which will harm small and medium Irish enterprises, said Fine Gael Senator Garret Ahearn.

Fine Gael Education, Further and Higher Education Spokesperson Paul Kehoe said that Sinn Fein’s alternative Budget promises a €1,000 reduction in student fees and increases in student grants. The problem is, they don’t have the money for it.

Sinn Féin are depriving those most in need of warmer homes by slashing retrofitting in their alternative Budget, a Fine Gael TD has said.