Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 April 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

And, as the Secretary General said in the statement, that is why we looked at employment growth, consumption, taxes, unemployment, GNI*. That is why we look at a suite of metrics, including underlying domestic demand, which the Minister mentioned at Tuesday's press conference, is growing at around 4% which we think is better in line with what is going on in the economy.

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