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Know what things should cost, what you’re entitled to, and whether you’re getting a fair deal — worked out from Irish rules and data, with every assumption shown.
Irish rules and data · Sources on every check · No account needed · Calculators run in your browser
The questions people arrive with most often.
Check a proposed increase against Rent Pressure Zone rules and RTB notice periods.
Rent Increase CheckerPopularIncome tax, USC and PRSI on an Irish salary, with credits and pension relief applied.
Take-Home Pay CalculatorPopularAn estimated Irish market value from make, model, year and mileage.
Car ValuationNewBorrowing capacity, deposit, monthly repayment and the upfront costs nobody budgets for.
House AffordabilityNewBreak a trade quote into labour, materials and VAT and compare it to benchmark ranges.
Quote CheckerNewAppliances, electronics, boilers, cars and tools — costed per remaining year of life.
Repair or ReplacePopularCompare Irish electricity and gas tariffs on net first-year cost, not headline rate.
Energy Switch ComparisonNewAnswer a few questions and see which Irish grants, schemes and payments are worth checking — and what could rule you out.
Grants & Entitlements FinderPick the area of your life the decision sits in.
Salary, tax, pensions, savings, debt and household finances.
Renting, buying, mortgages, renovations and quotes.
Car value, running costs, finance, fuel and EVs.
Refunds, warranties, complaints, small claims and work rights.
Electricity, gas, solar, heat pumps and home upgrades.
Childcare, benefits, college, pensions and life events.
Repair or replace, quote checking, price rises and big purchases.
Take-home pay, job offers, contracting, remote work and redundancy.
SEAI grants, housing schemes, family payments, student and business supports.
Buy vs rent, petrol vs EV, PCP vs cash, repair vs replace.
The checks to run, in the order the questions come up.
From what you can borrow to what the house will cost to fix and heat.
Price, finance and the running costs that outweigh both.
Whether a day rate beats the salary you have.
Budget, quote, company and what to do if it goes wrong.
Your rent, your rights and whether buying would beat it.
Based on Irish rules
Each one is a published Irish rule, with its source. Each one is also the reason a tool on this site exists.
Where a tool applies a published rule, it names the body the rule comes from and links to it. Revenue, the RTB, the Central Bank, SEAI, the CSO, the CCPC and the Courts Service, among others.
Where a calculation rests on an assumption rather than a rule, the assumption is visible and you can change it. A pension projection shows three growth rates rather than one confident number.
CheckIreland is independent and is not affiliated with the Irish Government or any public body. Nothing here is financial, tax or legal advice.
The short answer, and the tool that works it out on your own numbers.
A full strip-and-retile on a standard pitched roof is typically priced per square metre, with scaffolding, skips and any structural repairs itemised separately. The range is wide because access and condition drive it more than area does, so a quote well outside the normal band is a reason to ask what is behind it rather than proof of anything.
Check your roofing quoteThe Central Bank caps mortgage lending at four times gross income for first-time buyers and three and a half times for everyone else, with a loan-to-value ceiling of 90%. Whichever of those two limits binds first is the one to act on — more deposit does nothing if income is the constraint.
Calculate your affordabilityCompare the cost per remaining year of service rather than the repair price against the replacement price. A €180 repair buying three more years costs €60 a year; a €650 replacement lasting ten costs €65 — which makes the repair the better value, and is the opposite of what the usual rule of thumb says.
Run the calculationYes. All 87 tools are free, with no signup, no account and no card. Some pages carry partner links where a tool leads naturally to a provider, and those are marked — the answer comes first and never depends on them.
Official Irish sources wherever a published rule exists: Revenue for tax, the RTB for tenancies, the Central Bank for mortgage limits, SEAI for grants, the CSO for earnings, the CCPC and the Courts Service for consumer rights. Every tool names its sources and links to them, and shows when its figures were last reviewed.
For the calculators, nothing: they run in your browser and your figures are not sent anywhere or stored. A few checks need live data — the CRO company search and the nearby planning search send what you search for to our server and on to the official register, without storing it — and each of those pages says exactly what is sent. If you use the share button, the numbers go into the link you copy and nowhere else.
No. CheckIreland is independent and is not affiliated with the Irish Government or any public body. We apply published rules and link to the official source for each one so you can check them yourself.
No. These are general information tools built on published rules and typical costs, and they do not account for individual circumstances. Where a decision matters — tax, pensions, mortgages, a legal dispute — confirm it with the relevant body or a qualified adviser.