Ireland benefits from a strong and high-level commitment to integrate equality and its different dimensions into budgetary processes. These efforts are articulated under the “Equality Budgeting” initiative, which has been progressively implemented across the government since 2018. As part of this initiative and the country’s wider performance framework, the distributional impacts of budgetary and welfare measures are analysed to inform budgetary decisions. Government departments are also responsible for setting equality-related goals and relevant performance targets. An advisory group steers the development of the initiative, while the technical capacity to support its implementation is provided by an interdepartmental network of experts. Distributional analyses are underpinned by Ireland’s tax-benefit microsimulation model, which is developed and maintained independently. Overall, Ireland’s case therefore provides an example of a robust institutional framework for the routine consideration of equality in the budget cycle.