Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion

5:00 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The headline is that the Commission is recommending expansionary policies, but that does not affect Ireland because the Commission is saying that Ireland has a high level of public debt and that there are signs of the country overheating. What the Commission is basically saying is to use the expenditure available to deal with that issue, which is investing in the long term rather than tax cuts or short-term expenditure.

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