Clare Businesses To March On Leinster House In Protest Of Budget 2025

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Clare businesses will be marching on Leinster House this afternoon to express their frustration with Budget 2025. The protest has been organised by the Restaurants Association of Ireland, Vintners Federation of Ireland and the Irish Small and Medium Enterprise Council, with all calling for urgent measures to offset "spiralling costs". Retail and hospitality firms will benefit from a €4,000 energy subsidy announced in the budget, but will have to contend with the 13.5% vat rate and a further 50c hike to the national minimum wage. Owner of St.Tola's Goat Cheese in Ennistymon and ISME Council member Siobhán Ní Ghairbhith says the Government has no understanding of the current crisis.