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Irish budget, 2013

2013 (2013) Irish budget
Submitted by Brendan Howlin and Michael Noonan
Presented 5 December 2012
Parliament 31st Dáil
Party Fine Gael and Labour Party
Website www.budget.gov.ie/Budgets/2013/2013.aspx
2012
2014

The 2013 Irish budget was the Irish Government budget for the 2013 fiscal year, presented to Dáil Éireann on 5 December 2012. It was the second budget of the 31st Dáil.

The budget saw the introduction of the Local Property Tax at rates of 0.18% per annum and 0.25% per annum. Child benefit will be cut by €10 a month with €61m cuts in other household benefits. College fees will also rise in the next year by €250 a student while motor tax will also increase. A packet of 20 cigarettes increases by 10 cent while excise duty on a pint or beer or cider will increase by 10 cent, on a standard measure of spirits by 10 cent, and on a bottle of wine by €1.

On 13 December 2012, Labour Party TD Colm Keaveney voted against the government on cuts to the respite care grant leading to his loss of the Parliamentary Labour Party whip.


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