Smart Money: The future of interest rates is the biggest economic question in decades

Budgetary watchdog says agri-food and SME sectors are most exposed

Watchdog says €5.4bn rise in non-Covid spending for 2021 not adequately funded

Irish retirement age leave public finances 'vulnerable and unsustainable'

Budgetary watchdog says Republic ‘could have been running a much bigger surplus’ in recent years

Irish Fiscal and Advisory Council says worst-case scenario could be €15bn

Seen & Heard: Airbnb hosts in firing line and Johnny Ronan on Bewley’s closure

Process to appoint a successor to budgetary watchdog put on hold until after the election

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) addresses Oireachtas Budgetary Oversight Committee

William Beausang said advisory group ignored offers to work directly with departmental officials

Prof John McHale says: ‘Politics may again be leading us to the kind of mistakes we’ve made in the past’

Banks increasing variable rates in search of profits, says McHale

Kevin Humphreys claims giving sensitive forecasts to unelected council undermines Oireachtas

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council believes there is a one-in-three chance the Government will not reach its budget deficit target by 2015

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council says ‘significant uncertainties’ remain for Irish economy