Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council is an independent statutory body established as part of a wider agenda of reform of Ireland’s budgetary architecture.

We have a mandate to:

Assess and endorse, as we consider appropriate, the Government’s official macroeconomic forecasts
Assess budgetary forecasts
Assess the broader fiscal stance
Monitor compliance with fiscal rules

Latest
Date	News item
26th Feb 2021	The Council publishes a new working paper on the role of elasticities in forecasting government revenue
23rd Feb 2021	The Fiscal Council publishes a working paper on a new Macro-Fiscal model: the “Maq”
19th Feb 2021	The Fiscal Council will have two summer internship positions this year
16th Feb 2021	OECD launches its Review of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
4th Feb 2021	Programme announced for Path for the Public Finances Conference 2021
22nd Jan 2021	Response of the Minister for Finance to the Fiscal Assessment Report, December 2020
13th Jan 2021	The Fiscal Council welcomes its two newest members
1st Dec 2020	The Fiscal Council publishes its Fiscal Assessment Report, December 2020
14th Oct 2020	The Fiscal Council publishes a visual summary of Budget 2021
9th Oct 2020	The Fiscal Council publishes the “Long-term Model: Methodology Report” – a companion publication to the Long-term Sustainability Report
30th Sep 2020	The Fiscal Council publishes a new working paper on Forecasting Ireland’s Macroeconomy
30th Sep 2020	The Fiscal Council Endorsement Letter, September 2020
17th Sep 2020	Read our new Pre-Budget 2021 Statement
15th Jul 2020	The Fiscal Council publishes its first Long-term Sustainability Report
3rd Jul 2020	Response of the Minister for Finance to the Fiscal Assessment Report, May 2020
16th Jun 2020	The Council appears before the Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
27th May 2020	The Fiscal Council publishes its Fiscal Assessment Report, May 2020
26th May 2020	Join our webinar on the Fiscal Assessment Report.
27th Apr 2020	Article on COVID-19: Hard political choices today, tomorrow and further ahead.
10th Apr 2020	The Fiscal Council Endorsement Letter, April 2020
28th Feb 2020	Budgeting for Climate Change conference, 28th February 2020
2nd Jan 2020	The Fiscal Council publishes its Strategic Plan 2020-2022
9th Dec 2019	The Fiscal Council publishes a new working paper on projecting Ireland’s migration
28th Nov 2019	The Fiscal Council publishes its Fiscal Assessment Report, November 2019
14th Oct 2019	The Fiscal Council welcomes the appointment of Seamus Coffey as Chair of the Network of EU Independent Fiscal Institutions
14th Oct 2019	The Fiscal Council publishes a visual summary of Budget 2020
2nd Oct 2019	The Fiscal Council Endorsement Letter, September 2019
11th Sep 2019	Read our new Pre-Budget 2020 Statement
11th Sep 2019	Job Opportunity: Researcher & Permanent Secretary to the Network of the EU Independent Fiscal Institutions
18th Jul 2019	Response of the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure & Reform to the Fiscal Assessment Report, June 2019
2nd Jul 2019	Read our new Analytical Note on estimating how responsive Ireland’s deficit is to the economic cycle
2nd Jul 2019	We have added a new “Datasets” page for researchers
11th Jun 2019	The Fiscal Council publishes its new Fiscal Assessment Report
11th Jun 2019	The Fiscal Council publishes a new working paper on “Estimating Ireland’s Tax Elasticities: A Policy-Adjusted Approach”
7th Jun 2019	The Fiscal Council publishes a new Stand-Still Scenario for Government Spending over the Medium Term, 2020–2023
23rd May 2019	The Fiscal Council publishes its Assessment of Compliance with the Domestic Budgetary Rule in 2018
18th Apr 2019	New Council Member is Appointed to the Fiscal Council
5th Apr 2019	The Fiscal Council Endorsement Letter, April 2019
29th Mar 2019	The Fiscal Council publishes a new working paper on “The Current Account: a Real-Time Signal of Economic Imbalances or 20/20 Hindsight?”
22nd Feb 2019	The Fiscal Council holds its third annual “Path for the Public Finances” conference in Dublin Castle
30th Jan 2019	The Fiscal Council publishes a new working paper on “Ireland’s Spending Multipliers”
23rd Jan 2019	Response of the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure & Reform to the Fiscal Assessment Report, November 2018
28th Nov 2018	The Fiscal Council publishes its new Fiscal Assessment Report
31st Oct 2018	The Fiscal Council publishes a new working paper on using “Nowcasting to Predict Data Revisions”
2nd Oct 2018	The Fiscal Council Endorsement Letter, October 2018
7th Sept 2018	Pre-Budget 2019 Statement
7th Sept 2018	A “Heat Map” for Monitoring Imbalances in the Irish Economy
13th Aug 2018	Response of the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure & Reform to the Fiscal Assessment Report, June 2018
6th Jun 2018	The Fiscal Council publishes Fiscal Assessment Report, June 2018
6th Jun 2018	The Fiscal Council publishes a new working paper on “Designing a Rainy Day Fund to Work within the EU Fiscal Rules”
31st May 2018	The Fiscal Council publishes a new Stand-Still Scenario for Government Spending in the Medium Term, 2019–2023
31st May 2018	The Fiscal Council Publishes its Assessment of Compliance with the Domestic Budgetary Rule in 2017
11th Apr 2018	The Fiscal Council Endorsement Letter, April 2018
5th Mar 2018	The Fiscal Council holds a conference on the theme of measuring the Irish cycle
26th Jan 2018	The Fiscal Council publishes a new working paper on measuring the Irish cycle
25th Jan 2018	The Fiscal Council publishes a Note on the Proposed Rainy Day Fund for the consideration of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight