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:
The euro area average is in the late 80%s; between 85% and 90% of GDP. Obviously there is a large amount of dispersion within that. Greece and Italy are at 130% and 180%, and then Estonia is at 10% or 15%. We are below the European average, but if we look at it as a percentage of our preferred metric, GNI*, we are still at 100%, which is too much.
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