The Referendum Commission is to advertise on radio, television, newspapers and online from next week.
The commission is the official body charged with providing information about this month’s fiscal treaty vote.
Launching their campaign, Judge Kevin Feeney said the fiscal treaty was about strengthening the rules requiring governments to keep a balance between their income and their spending.
He also said it would introduce a new provision that a country's structural deficit could be no more than 0.5% of GDP.
Mr Feeney said the body had been given somewhat more time than its predecessor to do its work and he was confident they could discharge their duties adequately.
He said the fiscal treaty referendum was not competing with a Presidential election as had been the case last year, and this would make their work easier.
The Independent Guide to the Fiscal Stability Treaty will be distributed to two million houses from 8 May and the aim is to have completed distribution by 18 May.
He said further information from the commission will be available on the web.
Asked by journalists whether Ireland can still veto the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism in the event of a No vote, Judge Feeney said the opportunity for a veto is gone as Ireland has already agreed to the establishment of the ESM.
He said, however, this agreement has not yet been ratified by the Dáil and Seanad and that must be done before it becomes law.
He said it is theoretically possible the Dáil and the Seanad could refuse it still, but reiterated the opportunity for a veto is gone.
Éamon Ó Cuív will not canvass against treaty
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said Éamon Ó Cuív had agreed not to canvass for a No vote.
Mr Martin said every family in Ireland had different views on the merits of the treaty.
Asked whether he needed to assert his authority, Mr Martin said he had already done so by removing him as deputy leader and would be asserting his authority through argument in the campaign.
Meanwhile, the United Left Alliance launched its campaign for a No vote claiming the Household Charge and water charges are "organically" linked to the treaty.
Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins said the treaty was about austerity and he said it would institutionalise austerity policies and will mean massive increases in those taxes and other hardships and cuts.
He denied that they were scaremongering or misleading voters by using posters with the slogan "No to Home and Water Charges".
Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy said he was fed up with the Government attacking the left and demanding to know where they would get funding from.
Mr Higgins also said the Government had an arrogance to use slogans such as jobs and investment on their posters urging a Yes vote.
Sinn Féin has challenged the Government to explain where it will source the €6bn the party says will be required to meet the deficit reduction targets in the fiscal treaty.
Sinn Féin’s Finance Spokesperson Pearse Doherty claimed that the Government’s own figures predict a deficit of 3.5% in 2015 when the current Troika programme ends and that reducing that to the figure of 0.5% as required would cost some €6bn.
Mr Doherty was speaking at a news conference this afternoon.
He claimed that if the people vote No the Government would still be in a position to go back to Europe and demand changes to the ESM that would allow Ireland continued access to the fund.
