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- Student registration charge which will increase from an average of about €900 to €1,500.
- Patients attending hospital A&E units and staying in public hospitals will face a 10% increase in charges
- The automatic entitlement to a medical card for those over 70 is being abolished.
- People will also have to pay up to €100 a month for their medicines before the State begins to reimburse them any additional costs under changes to the Drug Payment Scheme.
- The Budget increases the pupil teacher ratio by one in both primary and secondary schools and by two in fee-paying schools. This means that at primary level, the ratio will go from 27:1 to 28:1
- A number of grants to schools are also being abolished or scaled back, giving Government a savings of €26.6m.
- An income levy (basically just an extra tax with a new name) of 1% will be charged on all incomes (including minimum wage workers) up to just over €100,000.
- For all the punx - Tax on cigarettes is gong up by 50c per packet of 20, and tax on wine is also going up 50c.
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