![]() There is an embarrassment of riches in dedicated Budget 2024 coverage as our correspondents and reporters pore over the details. An extra €900,000 is being provided to the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s Department for the same purpose. Some €144,000 is to be provided to increase staffing and resources at Áras an Uachtaráin for “key priorities in 2024. With an election due in 2025 next year will be President Michael D Higgins’ last full year in office. The scheme is to be extended to people who are medically unfit to drive from July 2024.ħ - More staff for the President and Taoiseach People with disabilities and carers aged under 66 may also qualify. It is be used to expand the canine unit as well as provide equipment for other Garda units, further fund road safety policing and enhance health and wellness measure for gardaí.Ĭurrently the Free Travel Scheme covers every Irish resident aged 66 and over. An additional €20.4 million is being provided for Garda operational expenditure. According to the unit’s website German Shepard breed are used for a wide variety of policing tasks while Labradors are good for finding drugs or explosives. The dogs assist in searches for suspects of crimes and for evidence which may have been discarded. The Garda Dog unit has been in existence for more than six decades. The extra cash for the operation of county and city councils is also to be used for funding fire service provision among other areas. ![]() The establishment of the office of the new directly-elected Mayor of Limerick - with the vote due to happen next June - is to be funded from an additional €29 million being provided to local government around the country.
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