Fiscal Council Webinar Wednesday 2nd December

The Fiscal Council is hosting a webinar on the December 2020 Fiscal Assessment Report, “Sustaining the Economy through Covid-19″.

This is the Council’s 19th Fiscal Assessment Report and comes as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to have a major impact on the Irish economy and public finances. The Report assesses the economic and fiscal consequences and explores a range of possible scenarios to 2025 along with an assessment of the policy consequences.

The twice-yearly Fiscal Assessment Report is the Council’s main publication. It assesses the Government’s budgetary stance, macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts, and compliance with fiscal rules.

The webinar will take place at 2pm Irish time on Wednesday 2nd December 2020.

Those interested in attending are invited to register at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H2MmvtM-SYuOY4OPdt4ckQ.

The Fiscal Response to COVID-19

Here’s a useful paper from the Department of Finance summarising the fiscal response to date to the pandemic: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/84a0c-taking-stock-the-fiscal-response-to-covid-19/

There’s lots of interesting material in it. One such piece is this comparison of deficits for 2020 and 2021 in the euro area.

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/84a0c-taking-stock-the-fiscal-response-to-covid-19/

Michael Somers on Pensions

Former Chief Executive of the NTMA, Michael Somers, writes in The Irish Times ‘We continue to ignore massive pensions elephant in the room‘.

Sean Barrett on Public Capital Spending

Sean Barrett in the Irish Independent writes ‘Three serious flaws in our society have converged in children’s hospital debacle’.

SSISI Symposium – Jurisprudence and its impact on public policy

The Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland invites you to attend the second Ordinary Meeting of its 174th session, where a symposium with the title “Jurisprudence and its impact upon Public Policy” will take place. The Society’s original object was to be the promotion of the study of statistics, jurisprudence, and social and economic science. The symposium highlights the jurisprudence aspect with a discussion of how modern laws impact upon the public policy realm, with contributions from three distinguished speakers:
Paul Gallagher SC is the Attorney General.
Margaret Gray SC QC is a specialist in European and Competition law.
Michael McDowell SC is a former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform.
Given the public health guidelines, this meeting will take place online, using the Zoom platform, at 4.30pm this Thursday November 26th. To register for this webinar, please click here or copy and paste the link at the bottom of this email into your browser. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

As ever, attendance is open to all and, given the format, feel free to circulate to others who may be interested so that they may also register their interest and attend on the day.

Link for registering:  https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kOOX3m4KTqahGtY_wn_qJw