Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Can we check the position? I may be wrong but recollect discussing with the Fiscal Advisory Council a compliance issue in respect of which I gathered it was the body designated to produce the independent forecast. It has already approached the finance committee with its view on the Department of Finance, for example. It largely thought the work was pretty good. I understood that the council was to produce its own report and that this was part of compliance requirements. Did we not have a discussion with the Fiscal Advisory Council on the types of models it would use and the funding and expertise needed to produce the macroeconomic forecasts?