Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance

2:00 pm

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

The margin of compliance is three quarters of a percentage point. I have made that point that the margin of compliance applied by the Minister is just over half of a percentage point. Is he not being ultra cautious in reducing the fiscal space that we really need this year in order to reach a target that we do not need to reach under the fiscal rules?

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