Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion
4:00 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Okay, on the basis that it should not apply the rules retrospectively or go with the medium-term objective, and even if expenditure benchmark is breached significantly, which would have required an adjustment in 2017, the only time it can make that analysis is in 2018 by which time it would have reached its MTO, on which side would the fiscal council come down, that the Commission is wrong or that the reaching the other target is the most urgent action?
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