Your guide to Budget 2025

One-off cost of living supports
Tax measures
Expenditure measures

This guide provides a high-level overview of Budget 2025.

It aims to explain how money will be raised and spent in 2025.

One-off cost of living supports

Measure	Date
€250 electricity credits (2 x €125)	2024/2025
€300 Fuel Allowance lump sum	Winter 2024
€200 Living Alone Allowance lump sum	Winter 2024
Double month Child Benefit	Winter 2024
€400 Working Family Payment lump sum	Winter 2024
€100 Qualified Child Increment lump sum	Winter 2024
Two double weeks for all long-term weekly welfare schemes	Oct and Dec 2024
€400 lump sum to selected welfare categories*	Winter 2024
Double payment of Foster Care Allowance	Winter 2024

*payment to recipients of the Carer’s Support Grant, Disability Allowance, Blind pension, Invalidity Pension and Domiciliary Care Allowance (one payment per individual)

Tax measures

€125 Increase in the Main Tax Credits
€2,000 Increase in the Standard Rate Cut-off Point
€150 Increase in the Home Carer Tax Credit
€150 Increase in the Single Child Carer Credit
€300 Increase in the Incapacitated Child Tax Credit
€300 Increase in the Blind person Credit
increase in the USC middle threshold by €1,622
reduction in the 4% USC rate to 3%
increase in the Rent Tax Credit from €750 to €1,000
increase in the Excise Duty and VAT on a pack of cigarettes by €1
VAT on Heat Pumps decreased to 9%
Sea-going Naval Personnel Tax credit extension

Expenditure measures

introduction of 495 new beds to our health service, bringing the total number of hospital and community beds to 18,000
increased access to IVF and HRT free of charge
1,600,000 additional home support hours
a €12 increase in the weekly main social welfare rate for working age recipients and pensioners
a comprehensive carer’s package: Increases to the Means Tests Disregard, Domiciliary Care Allowance, Carer’s Support Grant, and a Fuel Allowance
extending the Hot School Meals programme to all primary schools in 2025 and introduction of a school meals holiday hunger pilot project
10,000 new-build social homes
10,000 new tenancies supported through the Housing Assistance Payment and Rental Accommodation Schemes
€100 million for grants to adapt the homes of older people and people with a disability and to implement recommendations from the review of these schemes
€186 million to support the regeneration and rejuvenation of our towns and cities under the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
€400 million to accelerate the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan
€235 million helping to support the revitalisation of rural Ireland through infrastructure and schemes
€716 million to support sustainable farming through areas of natural constraint, forestry, organic farming and other schemes
continued rollout of the BusConnects programme in our cities and more town bus services
a new Search and Rescue contract for the Irish Coast Guard allowing for significantly improved services to protect and save lives
€1 million per day investment in cycling and walking infrastructure
fare initiatives on public transport, including the Young Adult Card and the ninety-minute fare, continued to end of 2025
extension of free child fares on Public Service Obligation services, to include children aged 5-8 years for the first time
€30 million for a new tillage scheme supporting farmers to plant their field grown crops
€8 million to enhance payment rates on the Beef Welfare Scheme
€10 million for animal health measures improving biosecurity
€22 million for the continuation of the National Sheep Welfare Scheme into 2025
almost €380 million to arts and culture
€231 million to sports which will benefit clubs and organisations in every corner of the country
significant increase in funding for the Irish Prisons Service, which includes provision for up to 350 additional staff
funding for the recruitment of up to a further 1,000 Gardaí and 150 Garda civilian staff next year
€7 million for organisations providing supports to victims of domestic, sexual and gender- based violence
funding for the recruitment, training and support of a net increase of 400 military personnel
highest ever allocation to official development assistance
€13 million to help integrate migrants from Ukraine into local communities
additional €25 million to the Community Recognition Fund for upgrades to sports facilities, community centres, parks, walking trails and playgrounds
extension of the Free Schoolbooks initiative to all senior cycle pupils in recognised post primary schools within the free education scheme
€78 million to support the continued growth of the craft apprenticeships system to 6,800 apprentice registrations
€1.3 billion will support 350 school building projects currently underway as well as a further 200 new school projects
768 additional special education teachers and 1,600 more Special Needs Assistants
the rollout of supports to allow schools become smartphone free areas throughout the school day

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