Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 May 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012

2:05 pm

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The two top lines on the table are GDP growth and unemployment. The former is very positive. Did we challenge this projection? It is all moving in one direction, which is also very positive. If one considers previous forecasts, however, including those produced by the International Monetary Fund and others, the projections for 2013 were very positive but as we moved towards the end of 2013, that was no longer the case.

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