Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 September 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute

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2:00 pm

Mr. Seamus Coffey:

Absolutely. GDP remains the key legal metric by which the economy will be judged. Given that GDP grew by 26% in 2015, though, we should not setting public policy on that basis.

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