Fiscal Advisory Council does not favour injecting money in effort to restore economy

The upward adjustment this year is higher than in any year during the property boom

Troika expressed concern that the spending plans are too expansionary

Patrick Honohan says multinational activities were boosting figures

Budget 2016 adheres to the letter rather than the spirit of the Growth and Stability pact

Enda Kenny wants to abolish charge while Burton wants cuts for low-income earners

EC declines to comment on claims Ireland’s budget may be in breach of EU rules

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council says Government is planning significant deviation

Taoiseach reacting to group’s concerns over spring economic statement

Analysis: State should avoid eroding its revenue-raising capacity

Taoiseach responds to criticism from fiscal council over risk of repeating errors

Prof John McHale says: ‘Politics may again be leading us to the kind of mistakes we’ve made in the past’

Tánaiste notes ‘important’ report by Fiscal Advisory Council which calls for tough budget

Budgetary watchdog says it would be ‘unwise’ to have a budget adjustment of less than €2 billion

Budgetary watchdog says the Government has no scope for cuts in taxation in upcoming October

Business Opinion: it is only a slight exaggeration to say the Government has let the banks’ customers be sacrificed at the altar of exit from the bailout

Unemployment is at its lowest for three years. Does this signal a resurgence in the job market or is it just that people are emigrating or joining one of the Government’s job schemes?

Banks increasing variable rates in search of profits, says McHale

The path of a lighter budget and rejection of a credit line needs growth for it to work

Additional capital needed might be sourced ‘from private sector or ESM’

‘By 2017, 2018, we should be in a position to raise expenditure,’ says McHale

Calls for a strategic investment bank to help small firms

Opinion: 2015 could see a return to modestly expansionist budgets

Officials brief all-party Oireachtas committee

There has been little talk of economic and European issues in the campaign

Kevin Humphreys claims giving sensitive forecasts to unelected council undermines Oireachtas

Slide in borrowing costs was part of EU bond rally linked to speculation about rate cut

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council believes there is a one-in-three chance the Government will not reach its budget deficit target by 2015

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council says ‘significant uncertainties’ remain for Irish economy