High hopes N4 funding will be announced in this afternoon’s budget
There are high hopes this morning that the money for the new N4 route between Collooney and Castlebaldwin will at last be included in today’s budget. If the N4 funding is announced, it will be a major milestone in a long campaign for the upgrade of a dangerous stretch of…
Farmers hoping a number of their issues will be addressed in budget
Farmers are hoping a number of their issues will be addressed in tomorrow’s budget. Tomorrow afternoon at 1pm, The Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe, will deliver his Budget 2018 speech. The IFA lobbied government representatives two weeks ago in relation to issues such as ANC payments. Donegal IFA…
Business, hospitality industry in NW hoping for retention of 9% VAT rate in budget
There are last minutes calls today from businesses and those in the hospitality industry in the north west for the 9% VAT rate to be retained in tomorrow’s budget. Sligo businessman Finbar Filan says that while businesses, such as hotels, in Dublin are doing well, there remains what he describes…
Independent councillor opposes 2017 Donegal co co budget
A Donegal councillor says the only way for the county to highlight it’s lack of funding was to reject yesterdays proposed budget. Independent councillor Micheal Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig opposed the 2017 budget which was passed yesterday. The council will have 2.2 million euro more to spend in 2017 but…
Donegal TD accuses government of misleading Dail
The government’s been accused of misleading the Dáil over its controversial scheme for first-time buyers. The claim comes from Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty – who is querying the role of the Central Bank in how the scheme was designed. Michael Noonan told the Dáil on Budget Day, that he had…