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

3:20 pm

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The original fiscal responsibility legislation, now the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2012, outlines what an official forecast is in the definition section. It means the macroeconomic and budgetary forecasts published by the Department of Finance for the purpose of fiscal planning and known as the spring forecasts and the autumn forecasts.

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