Tax cuts, welfare increases, childcare places and a freezing of the local property tax will be among the highlights.
Smokers look like the only ones who will be hit when the price of cigarettes goes up from midnight tonight.
This budget – the coalition's last before the election seems to have something for everyone.
Workers will benefit from USC cuts, minimum wage workers will get 50 cent an hour extra, the self employed will get tax credits.
Welfare recipients get more too – a 75% Christmas bonus in December, the old age pension up 3 euro a week.
The respite care grant will be restored to 77,000 carers.
Children will get an extra year free preschool or childcare, the money has been found to extend free doctor visits to under 12's.
More Gardaí will be recruited, more teachers will be put in schools, the local property tax will be frozen until at least 2019.
The government hopes this budget will bring the recovery through everyone's front door – but with Ministers failing to agree on measures on rent and housing, maybe not everyone will benefit.
Minister Michael Noonan will take to his feet in the Dáil at 2.30 this afternoon.
