Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 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 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015
9:00 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
None. We are the outlier. As it was so important and is a huge issue, EUROSTAT sat on the working group. The OECD, the IMF and the UN all sat on the working group because Ireland is at the coal face here. Everyone, from a statistical perspective, was really interested in this. They support what we are doing, but there is no intention to roll it out for other countries yet. There are other countries with an issue, but they recognise that we are so far out there.
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