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The Minister for Finance has said that “no decisions” have been made on changes to the carers allowance in this year’s budget.
Minister Paschal Donohoe said however that “it is a matter that is important to the Government and we are working collectively with regard to that”.
He said how the Government supports carers “has always been a key focus of budgets”.
According to today’s Irish Independent, Budget 2026 will see the income thresholds for carers allowance raised.
It reports that the thresholds will increase by €200 for a single person and €400 for a couple.
Minister Paschal Donohoe said Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers is engaged in negotiations with all ministers.
Minister Donohoe, who was attending a Fine Gael conference on small business in Carlow today, also said “no decision” had been made on any individual tax measure.
The conference is also being attended by Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke and Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeil.
Minister Carroll MacNeil said she met Family Carer’s Ireland this week and “it really is important that the Government supports carers.
“We’re always trying to support people in their homes” she said.
Separately, the Minister for Enterprise has welcomed confirmation from the White House that new US tariffs targeting pharmaceuticals do not apply to countries that have already negotiated trades deals with the Trump administration.
Yesterday, US President Donald Trump announced a suite of new tariff measures, including 100% duties on pharmaceuticals set to take effect on 1 October, casting uncertainty over a previous framework agreement between the EU and the US.
However the EU stressed that its trade deal with the US, reached in July, shields such exports from tariffs higher than 15%.
“It’s important that we now have a very substantial deal with the EU and US,” said Peter Burke.
“It’s the biggest, largest, most important trading relationship on the globe,” he added.
“It was good to see from the US administration last night, the confirmation that the European deal still stands, and that will be the case.
“That gives certainty for so many industries,” he said.
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Two people have died attempting to cross the English Channel on Saturday morning, French officials have told AFP news agency.
The incident happened overnight off the coast of northern France, when about 100 people set off by makeshift boat to try to get to the UK, authorities said.
Sixty people from the attempt were rescued and are “are currently being cared for by civil protection,” according to French official Isabelle Fradin-Thirode cited by the AFP news agency.
A couple and their child suffering from moderate hypothermia were rushed to a hospital in Boulogne, she added.
French newspaper La Voix Du Nord reported that the two who died were both women.
The incident overnight happened south of the beaches of Neufchâtel-Hardelot in the Pas-de-Calais region.
At least 25 people have died so far this year trying to make the dangerous crossing in small boats.
Earlier this month, three people died – likely in a crush on the bottom of a packed boat – off the coast of Calais during another attempted crossing.
Last year, 50 people died while trying to cross the Channel, according to incidents recorded by the French coastguard.
More than 30,000 people have reached the UK in small boats so far in 2025 and more than 50,000 have crossed since Labour came into power in July 2024.
The UK government has come under increased pressure over the number of small boats crossing into the UK and asylum seeker applications.
Recently France and the UK agreed on a “one in, one out” returns deal, which was designed as a deterrent to stop boats from crossing the Channel. It proposes that for each migrant the UK returns to France, another migrant who had not attempted a Channel crossing but with a strong case for asylum in Britain will come the other way.
Sir Keir Starmer has previously called the crossings “totally unacceptable” and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said the “vile” people-smugglers behind them are “wreaking havoc on our borders”.
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