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The Vintners’ Federation of Ireland (VFI) is urging Government to engage immediately with the hospitality sector to clarify what supports are now available for its members following the publication of Budget 2024.

The Minister for Finance, Michael McGrath, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe, presented the fourth Budget of the coalition Government on Tuesday. This Budget was framed against a backdrop of the ongoing war in the Ukraine, concerns about persistent inflation and the perceived windfall nature of corporation tax receipts.

Minister for Finance, Michael McGrath, has announced in Budget 2024 that free school books will be administered for students up to junior cycle. This measure will cost €67 million, and will benefit over 200,000 children, amounting to €310 per child. Primary school books were already free, but this has been increased to the first three years of secondary school as part of a €55 million package.

WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST MEMORY? Attending play-school with Ann Cahill in Dangan or Gaelic training with the u5s in the Bushypark School pitch with John Ruane and John Kenny.

Local Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, warmly welcomed Minister for Public Enterprise, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, to Athlone late last week for a series of engagements.

Local Sinn Féin Deputy, Claire Kerrane, has said the government’s failure to support ambulance services and paramedics is putting lives at risk.

Mayo Sinn Féin TD, Rose Conway-Walsh has called on the government to urgently publish a multi-annual capacity and workforce plan to meet the needs of patients and improve the ability of the National Ambulance Service to save lives.

Galway hoteliers have expressed deep concern about the effect of a potential €400m increase in VAT on Irish consumers and overseas visitors.

Local Fine Gael Senator, Aisling Dolan, has spoken of the urgent the need for a bus route from Athlone to Ballinasloe along the old Dublin-Galway road.

The VAT on defibrillators is a “tax on saving lives” and must be scrapped, the Irish Heart Foundation insisted in its pre-Budget submission this week.