Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance

1:30 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The short answer is that I will but to be clear about the Brexit effect, I referred to a hard or disorderly exit with many conditions around that. Later on in the process, it may be appropriate to spell out in greater detail what that would be but, as I said, there are many unknowns in terms of what a disorderly Brexit would look like. At a minimum, we can expect that the kind of changes we might have seen happen across a couple of years can be done in a single year, and an even shorter time period than that, so the effect, at a minimum, could be what I referred to earlier. However, on budget day and afterwards, it may be appropriate to outline that more fully.

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