Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage

3:10 pm

Photo of Peter MathewsPeter Mathews (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is important to be tight in defining these things. The wording is that the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council "shall endorse", while the requirement from the troika concerns whether the forecasts have been endorsed. The council can either endorse or not endorse. Perhaps the wording should be "shall endorse or not endorse, as appropriate".

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