Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

The Government’s budgetary watchdog has called for a “substantial multi-year stimulus” to restore demand in the Irish economy. In a pre-budget submis(...)

The Government will not make any changes to income tax in next month’s Budget, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has indicated. With Covid-19 case(...)

The Irish labour market tends to amplify economic shocks. That’s been observed through several recent recessions. The reason is that 70 per cent of t(...)

During this pandemic the Government must not ignore the urgent need for pension reform. After protracted negotiations to form a new Government, urgent(...)

It isn’t often that a government can pump billions of euro into the economy and still be so unsure about its impact on growth. Yet we all know that th(...)

Paul Gallagher, the State’s Attorney General during the depths of the financial crisis, has had a busy time getting back up to speed since Taoiseach M(...)

The Covid-19 pandemic will undoubtedly have a major impact on the Irish economy, but it’s only the current financial crisis: others lie in wait if the(...)

Ireland has one of the fastest-ageing populations in the EU. In just 30 years, the number of those whom the State’s working population will have to su(...)

Economic growth will slow to a long-term rate of about 1 per cent in the coming decades, with the impacts of an ageing population and reforms to corpo(...)

The current age of retirement leaves the public finances on a vulnerable and unsustainable footing and should be pushed out to reflect increasing leve(...)