- Read more: Pre-Budget 2027 Report
The report warns that fiscal policy must avoid adding to inflationary pressures, that repeated spending overruns undermine transparency, and that Ireland’s reliance on concentrated corporation tax receipts creates serious risk for the public finances. It also calls for a broader tax base, a credible domestic fiscal rule, and more multi-annual budgeting.
- Read more: Post-Budget 2026 Report
The Committee on Budgetary Oversight, established to enhance the role of the Oireachtas in the budgetary formation process, has published its Post-Budget 2026 Report. “The Committee’s post‑Budget review highlights the need for a resilient and transparent fiscal framework amid growing geopolitical and economic uncertainty. The report warns that Budget 2026 is expansionary and pro-cyclical at…
- Read more: Budget Choices 2026
Social Justice Ireland published a report on ‘Budget choices 2026’ on 2 July 2025.
- Read more: The Hidden Downside of Tax Cuts and Energy Credits for Controlling Inflation
This paper points to the negative effect of inflation on spending power—especially for those reliant on social protection—and its negative effects on public spending and Ireland’s competitiveness, while highlighting the extent to which the government is accused of driving inflation higher through universal energy credits and tax cuts, with the end result of reducing everyone’s…
- Read more: Social Justice Ireland: Analysis of Budget 2023
Social Justice Ireland have published an analysis and critique of Budget 2023. It is available to download here.
- Read more: The European Union Budget: Member State Contributions and Expenditures
In 2017, total revenue accruing to the European Union (EU) was €139 billion with total expenditure amounting to €137bn. Ireland’s contribution to the EU budget amounted to just over €2bn in 2017, and it received €1.8bn from the EU in the same year.
