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# Fiscal Advisory Council

This year
2023
# Economy
Ireland 'really needs' to manage long-term planning better, fiscal watchdog warns govt
Unemployment rates are at record low levels and capacity constraints are a significant challenge.
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Jun 7th 2023, 7:38 AM
Last year
2022
# Fiscal Advisory Council
Budget must be ‘balancing act’ between helping vulnerable and stoking inflation, watchdog warns
The Fiscal Advisory Council said Ireland’s economic recovery has lost momentum in recent months.
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Aug 31st 2022, 6:00 AM
All time
# Fiscal Advisory Council
Government's 'risky' budget strategy could put debt on 'unsustainable path', watchdog warns
The Fiscal Advisory Council said there are “clear needs” to tackle housing, health and climate shortfalls.
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Sep 15th 2021, 9:58 AM
# Covid-19
Cuts of €6-€14 billion until 2025 needed to recover from Covid-19 pandemic, Fiscal Council warns
There will be ‘almost historic highs’ of debt ratios in Ireland as a result of Covid-19, the Fiscal Council’s report states.
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May 27th 2020, 9:21 AM
# Fiscal Advisory Council
'Inevitable' Irish economy will suffer 'adverse shocks' as fiscal watchdog sounds Budget warning
The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has warned that external shocks to the economy must be protected against.
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Sep 7th 2018, 7:01 AM
# save it for a...
Plans for a 'rainy day fund' have been given the thumbs-up - if it's done right
But the €2.5 billion proposed will be only a fraction of the money used in the last recession.
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Jun 8th 2016, 6:03 AM
# spend spend spend
Survey finds majority of people thought Budget 2016 was good for Ireland
Michael Noonan has denied that the government had returned to the days of “when I have it, I spend it”.
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Oct 14th 2015, 8:17 PM
# money worries
The government has been painting a too-rosy budget picture
Its fiscal advisory council has warned something will have to give.
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Jun 4th 2015, 10:28 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Catch up as you wake up.
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Nov 25th 2014, 8:54 AM
# Budget 15
Why the spending watchdog wasn't impressed with Budget 2015
The Fiscal Advisory Council says that the government could have moved the country to a “zone of safety” in the last budget.
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Nov 25th 2014, 7:52 AM
# MacGill
Sorry Michael: Spending watchdog still thinks Noonan should cut €2bn in the budget
Economic figures warned Michael Noonan that the hard slog is not over at the MacGill Summer School tonight.
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Jul 23rd 2014, 10:21 PM
# Bailout exit
The NTMA will play it safe and look to raise €6-10 billion on bond markets in 2014
The NTMA say that they will not “run out the door” to make a long-term bond sale.
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Dec 14th 2013, 7:00 AM
Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Dec 5th 2013, 4:55 PM
# Fiscal Advisory Council
Government budget advisors: No room for tax cuts until after 2016
The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council is before the Oireachtas Finance Committee today.
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Dec 5th 2013, 3:30 PM
# Budget
Fiscal Advisory Council clarifies Spring's Prime Time Budget comments
It said that its preferred policy is to continue with the planned adjustment of €3.1 billion.
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Oct 9th 2013, 9:36 PM
# Fiscal Advisory Council
Charts: Here's how the government's liabilities have increased to €208bn in five years
The government’s liabilities last year were a whopping €208 billion.
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Sep 26th 2013, 9:27 AM
# Mini-Budget
No mini-Budget planned this summer - Brian Hayes
Hayes said a proposed €400million in cuts “would harm the economy” as it struggles to regain growth.
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Apr 4th 2012, 9:09 AM
# fiscal compact
Government should not include fiscal rules in constitution - advisory council
The Fiscal Advisory Council has said that the proposed fiscal compact should not be enshrined in the constitution.
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Jan 26th 2012, 9:00 AM
# Budget 2012
€4 billion ‘should be cut in Budget 2012′
The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council says the government needs to cut €4 billion from its spending if the state is expected to meet its 2015 deficit target.
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Oct 12th 2011, 1:03 PM