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The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s held it’s eighth annual conference on long-term public finance issues on February 22nd. The conference revisited the theme of budgeting for climate change.

The Council would like to thank all of the presenters and panelists for their contributions. The slides from the presentations can be found below.

Conference Matierials

 

Presentation slides

Laura Burke. Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment and the current state of play

Hannah Daly. Carbon budgets in Ireland: The most likely transition path & policy implications

Douglas Sutherland. An international perspective

Simona Pojar. Green Budgeting in the EU.

Killian Carroll. What climate change means for Ireland’s public finances

Alison Todd. Fiscal implications of climate change for the UK

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council is recruiting two summer interns for 2024.

Open to

Those currently engaged in an undergraduate or postgraduate degree programme.

Nature of employment

Paid Summer Internship.

About the Council

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council is an independent statutory body with a mandate to oversee the Government’s macroeconomic and fiscal projections, compliance with the fiscal rules and to assess the fiscal stance. The Council undertakes a wide range of analysis and research to support this role. You can find out more on our about the Council page and our publications page.

Job Description

This summer, we have an exciting opportunity envisaged for two summer interns in the areas of data science and economics.

The interns will collaborate on a project investigating macroeconomic and fiscal risks.

The project will involve the two interns working together on exploring relevant literature, gathering relevant inputs, and employing text analysis to develop a sophisticated risk toolkit. This would enhance the Council’s capacity for risk analysis on an ongoing basis.

Experienced staff in the Council’s Secretariat will provide dedicated support throughout the project.

Interns will come away from the project with experience of what it is like to work in a professional organisation developing high-impact research with direct policy implications.

The internships are temporary posts lasting up to twelve weeks and attract a stipend of €534.34 per week, with flexible remote working solutions on offer.

Specific dates will primarily be based on candidates’ availability.

We will select a panel of candidates for any appointment.

Closing date

The closing date for applications is Friday, 22nd March 2024.

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to selecting candidates on the basis of merit.

 

Response from Minister Noonan to June 2016 Fiscal Assessment Report

This page provides some information on areas related to the Council’s expenditure, which are released as part of its efforts to facilitate the freedom of information.

More detailed information on the Council’s finances and activities are covered in its annual reports.

What we spend

Annual Report and Accounts
The Council is subject to audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General. The annual accounts are submitted to the Minister for Finance and a copy laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. The Annual Report and Accounts are published on this website.

Governance Board Member remuneration Non executive Governance Board Member remuneration for attendance at Board meetings, or work as a Board member (where applicable).

• Reporting and Transparency
  A schedule of attendance at Council and Committee meetings, including the fees and expenses received by each member, is published in the Annual Report and Accounts (see note 4). Expenses incurred in attending meetings of the Council are refunded in accordance with civil service domestic rates.
• Council Fees. For Council members not employed in the Irish public sector, fees payable are set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: €20,520 for the Chair and €11,970 for the members. Where members, including the Chair, are employed by a body coming within the Irish public sector, no fee is payable directly to the member concerned.
• Compensation for Employer Costs Incurred (Time buy-outs). Due to the time commitment necessary of Council members to fulfil the functions of the Council, in the case of public sector members a time buy-out is in place to compensate their full-time employers for costs incurred due to the absence of their employees on Council business.

 

Payments or Purchase Orders for goods and services: Details, on a quarterly basis, of payments or purchase orders for goods and services of more than €20,000, if applicable:

• Payments over €20,000

  Details, on a quarterly basis, of payments for goods and services of more than €20,000, if applicable.

  • • • Payments

        1. Payments over €20,000 to end Quarter 1 (31 March 2024)
        2. Payments over €20,000 in 2023
        3. Payments over €20,000 in 2022
        4. Payments over €20,000 in 2021
        5. Payments over €20,000 in 2020
        6. Payments over €20,000 in 2019
        7. Payments over €20,000 in 2018
        8. Payments over €20,000 in 2017
        9. Payments over €20,000 in 2016

  Purchase orders over €20,000

  Details, on a quarterly basis, of purchase orders for goods and services of more than €20,000, if applicable

  • • • Purchase Orders

        1. Purchase Orders over €20,000 to end Quarter 1 (March 2024)
        2. Purchase Orders over €20,000 in 2023
        3. Purchase Orders over €20,000 in 2022
        4. Purchase Orders 2021 (no purchase orders for more than €20,000 were issued in 2021)
        5. Purchase Orders 2020 (no purchase orders for more than €20,000 were issued in 2020)
        6. Purchase Orders 2019 (no purchase orders for more than €20,000 were issued in 2019)
        7. Purchase Orders 2018 (no purchase orders for more than €20,000 were issued in 2018)
        8. Purchase Orders 2017 (no purchase orders for more than €20,000 were issued in 2017)

  Details of Contracts over €25,000

  Public contracts awarded including contract type, contractor, value, award date, duration and brief description (tabular format) over €25k contracts On a quarterly basis, details of public contracts awarded for values over €25,000 (exclusive of VAT) should be published.

• • • Contracts

      1. Contracts awarded to end Quarter 1 (March 2024)
      2. Contracts awarded to end 2023
      3. Contracts awarded to end 2022
      4. Contracts awarded to end 2021
      5. Contracts awarded in 2020
      6. Contracts awarded in 2019 (no contracts were awarded in 2019)
      7. Contracts awarded in 2018
      8. Contracts awarded in 2017