{"id":410571,"date":"2026-04-21T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410571\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:18:09","slug":"explainer-what-is-the-annual-progress-report-and-what-does-it-tell-us-about-the-state-of-irelands-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410571\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: What is the Annual Progress Report, and what does it tell us about the state of Ireland\u2019s economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The report was released on Tuesday by Finance Minister Simon Harris and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"T\u00e1naiste and Finance Minister Simon Harris. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/49ca28fb-dac2-4339-967e-60d81c62d71b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">T\u00e1naiste and Finance Minister Simon Harris. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What is the Annual Progress Report that ministers Simon Harris and Jack Chambers launched on Tuesday?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As we\u2019re at the midway point between the 2026 budget and October\u2019s Budget 2027, it\u2019s a check-in on the state of the public finances, which are still remarkably healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report was released on Tuesday by Finance Minister Simon Harris and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers T\u00e1naiste&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11977,61,60,5243,43,70],"class_list":["post-410571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-department-of-finance-dof","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-burns","tag-news","tag-simon-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}