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
Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
It is most unsatisfactory that we have the presentation before us only now. We have a bad taste on our mouths from the bankers being before us, trying to bamboozle us with figures and not giving us a chance to see the information beforehand. It is important to look forward. Hopefully in future years we will receive this information at the same time as IFAC. Is there a reason we could not have had this earlier? The tables included require digesting. We have more restrictions on us than IFAC, for example, we have a very strict Chairman, so we do not have much time-----
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