Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

The great and the good in Fine Gael gathered in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, this week for the party’s annual think-in, where Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Min(...)

Corporation tax harmonisation plans across the euro zone pose a bigger threat to Ireland than the departure of the UK from the European Union, the hea(...)

Ireland’s corporate tax code meets the highest standards internationally, a Government-commissioned report has concluded. And it says the recent surge(...)

While success may bring its own rewards, for the Government it brings new headaches. The economic recovery since 2012 has transformed the Irish labo(...)

Next year should see Ireland have a balanced government budget for the first time in a decade. The huge deficit between government income and spending(...)

Ireland’s ongoing crisis with affordable housing gets plenty of airing in the papers with the head of the Housing Agency telling the Sunday Business P(...)

The Government would take “prudent’’ decisions in the run-up to the October budget, Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has said. She told the Dáil on Thursd(...)

Governments generally hope and pray for higher growth to unleash additional resources to improve public services or cut taxes. However, wise governmen(...)

The pay increases in the proposed new public pay deal will use up about one-third of the total room for spending increases and tax cuts in the October(...)

Michael Noonan has played down warnings about a new property bubble and the economy overheating because of housing construction, attributing current d(...)