Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion

Photo of Willie O'DeaWillie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----and, if it is what he says, we would have no problem putting it forward.

I will ask Mr Byrne the same question. He has made recommendations. The figures in question would not substantially increase the national debt or affect the debt-to-GDP ratio in any discernible way but we would like to have a figure, some sort of costing, because our guests are asking us to put forward certain proposals to the Minister for Finance to compete with all the other proposals he will be getting. We want to know where we stand on cost.

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