With PBO | Essentials, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has curated a list of core reference resources to better understand discussions about the economy, the budget, taxation and how public money is spent.
Essential | Insight
With Essential | Insight, we look at a series of indispensable guidance documents that help to decipher financial and economic concepts.
Our current Essential Insight is a non-technical summary of our latest working paper, which deals with medium-term macroeconomic forecasting in Ireland.
Take a look at our essential guides
- The economy
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Introduction to the Irish economy: Fiscal Policy
Introduction to the Irish economy: Monetary Policy
Introduction to the Irish economy: Economic Growth
Introduction to the Irish economy: Inflation
Introduction to the Irish economy: Unemployment
Potential Output, the Output Gap and Associated Key Issues for Fiscal Policy-making in Ireland
General Government Debt: Key Issues to Consider
A Primer on Economic Overheating: What it means and how to measure it
- Public spending and taxation
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Social Insurance Fund Administration
Existing level of service explained
PBO Note on An Overview of Current and Capital Spending within Government Expenditure
Measuring the Cost of Public Service Provision: Gross & Net Spending in Ireland
Tax Expenditures in Ireland: Key Issues for Consideration
An overview of the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) PBO Note 8 of 2018
An overview of Public Private Partnerships in Ireland
Public Sector Pay and Pensions: Features and Key Determinants
The HSE National Service Plan and its Relationship with the Health Vote
Scrutiny processes for existing tax expenditures in selected European Parliaments
Review of the Estimates Scrutiny Process
General Government Expenditure How its composition constrains decisions about government spending
Demographics and Voted Expenditure
Multiannual Expenditure Ceilings: An effective control for spending or simply the baseline?
An Overview of the Central Fund: What it is & how it operates
Health Spending in Ireland 2015-2023
Recent Reforms to European Union Value Added Tax 2020-2022
- EU rules
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An Overview of the European Commission’s Next Generation EU Instrument
- Equality budgeting and budget reform
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The future of the Government’s Spending Review: A parliamentary scrutiny perspective
Demystifying scrutiny of the Revised Estimates for Public Services
An Analysis of Equality Budgeting Content in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2023
- EU and international developments
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The Multiannual Financial Framework of the EU
An Overview of the OECD BEPS Negotiations
PBO Note on Proposed new EU Fiscal Rules (EU Economic Governance Framework)