Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised)
9:00 am
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
From the point of view of someone who has to travel across the Border on two occasions to get back to my constituency and has a deep conviction regarding the reunification of this country, I would hope that the Minister would talk to the Taoiseach so that along with arguing for the Scottish people's vote to remain within the EU to be respected, he would make the same arguments for people in the northern part of this island.
Returning to the economics of this, the summer economic statement showed the potential impact it could have on our economy. Would it not be a fair assessment to say that even the adverse position, a 6% drop in GDP in Great Britain translating into a drop of about 1% here, is very much containable given the level of growth that is expected in the Irish economy over the next number of years?
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