Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance
6:20 pm
Mr. John McCarthy:
It sought additional information on quarterly profiles of growth, such as what happened in the first and second quarters and what that implied for the second half of the year and into next year. We have no problem providing that data to the committee. We do not do quarterly forecasts like most countries. Given the volatility of quarterly data in Ireland there is a trade-off between the quality of the data and-----
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