The Committee was established to enhance the role of the Oireachtas in the budgetary formation process. The Committee reviews the macro-economic and fiscal issues that form part of budget considerations.
Latest report
Parliamentary engagement during the budgetary cycle
The Committee has completed its consideration of the framework for parliamentary engagement throughout the budgetary cycle. The Committee recommends that budgetary engagement by the Houses of the Oireachtas be reshaped to put parliamentary committees at the heart of the scrutiny.
Press releases
26 Apr 2021, 13.22
Budgetary Oversight Committee to hear from Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe
1 Apr 2021, 16.11
Committee on Budgetary Oversight publishes Pre-Stability Programme Update Report 2021
22 Mar 2021, 15.09
Budgetary Oversight Committee to hear from Central Bank
Recent videos
Tue, 27 Apr 2021
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Topic: Draft Stability Programme Update engagement
Tue, 23 Mar 2021
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Topic: Pre-Stability Programme Update engagement
Recent documents
Tue, 27 Apr
Opening statement, Paschal Donohoe TD, Minister for Finance, Department of Finance
Thu, 11 Mar
Opening statement, John McCarthy, Chief Economist, Department of Finance
Tue, 23 Mar
Opening statement, Mark Cassidy, Director of Economics and Statistics Director, Central Bank of Ireland
Recent reports
Thu, 1 Apr 2021
Pre-Stability Programme Update 2021
Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight report on Pre-Stability Programme Update April 2021
Fri, 5 Mar 2021
Work Programme December 2020 – June 2021
Committee on Budgetary Oversight Work Programme December 2020 – June 2021
Wed, 24 Feb 2021
Final Report on the framework for parliamentary engagement throughout the course of the budgetary cycle
Committee on Budgetary Oversight Final Report on the framework for parliamentary engagement throughout the course of the budgetary cycle February 2021
Committee contact details
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Leinster House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2
D02 XR20