NI-style ‘spend local’ vouchers would make inflation worse, expert to warnProfessor Karl Whelan from UCD will today tell TDs and senators it was ‘for the best’ that vouchers were not given out to the public in the manner proposed by Sinn Féin
Watchdog: ‘It’s very unclear what’s happened to this money’ In a damning report, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has labelled the government’s economic plans as “not realistic”. Is it likely to prompt a change in direction?
Government is warned it will have to cut spending or raise taxesPublic finances will be ‘very tight’ over the coming years due to changes made in the last budget, according to fiscal watchdog
Noonan warned against spending spree in his final budgetFormer finance minster told cabinet colleagues in Budget 2016 memo ‘we should not repeat the policy errors of the last decade’
Covid-19 spending pushes state into €19bn budget deficitTax take drops less than expected to €57 billion, which lessens the impact of the pandemic on the state’s finances
Top civil servant warned government against new interventions in housing marketWatt supported affordable housing, but cautioned state was already ‘meeting part of the costs of housing for too many households’, FoI documents show