Ireland's Department of Finance launches 2026 to 2027 financial literacy action plan with more than 100 measures and an investment account roadmap

Ireland's Department of Finance has launched the National Financial Literacy Strategy Annual Review and Action Plan 2026 to 2027, setting out more than 100 actions to strengthen financial literacy and consumer resilience. The plan focuses on practical areas including saving, pensions, fraud awareness and investing, and also aims to prepare consumers to understand the Government's planned Investment Account. The accompanying annual review reports first-year progress under the strategy, including the continued embedding of financial literacy in the new Primary Mathematics Curriculum, more than 170,000 student engagements and nearly 2,000 school sessions through financial literacy programmes, and around two million people reached through financial education initiatives across television, radio and print media. Measures in the new action plan include EUR 200,000 for financial literacy projects through the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission's Collaboration and Innovation Fund, updated internationally comparable data on financial literacy levels in Ireland, a new monitoring and evaluation toolkit, communications on pension auto-enrolment, and further scam and fraud awareness work. The Department of Finance is also developing a roadmap to support the introduction of the planned Investment Account in the upcoming Budget. The strategy is being implemented with the Central Bank of Ireland and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.