The centrepiece of Budget 2016 are cuts to the Universal Social Charge which will deliver hundreds of euro a year to workers.
Minimum wage earners will get an extra 50 cent an hour from January, there are new credits to cut the tax bills of the self employed.
Hauliers do well as their motor tax bills will be cut by as much as 4,000 euro.
There's an extra free pre-school year for children, 8,000 more childcare places for low earners and child benefit goes up a fiver a month.
Pensioners get an extra three euro a week, there's two weeks paid leave for Dads, the respite care grant's restored, the fuel allowance goes up and there's a 75 per cent Christmas bonus in December.
Free doctor visits are to be extended to under 12's, 2,200 more teachers in our schools and 600 more Gardai are to be recruited to the Templemore College next year.
The local property tax won't be revalued now until 2019 instead of next year, NAMA's to build 20,000 more homes, local authorities will get the money for 14,000 units.
Cigarettes are the only old reliables to be hit – a pack of 20 goes up by 50 cent from midnight.
