Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 June 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

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

Large parts of that underspend come in the area of health and recruitment in health, so not trying to catch up causes problems there and accentuates the problems we have.

I believe it was the Institute for Fiscal Studies in Britain that analysed Boris Johnson's measures and suggested that they shielded the most vulnerable by giving the types of payments that were made for those on social welfare payments of £650, an additional £150 for those on disability payments, along with a suite of other measures. Is that the type of approach we should be looking at here?

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