Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Dr. Eddie Casey:
Exactly, but we have this broader argument about how the spending rule should work, and one of the points we make is that it should be thought of as a net spending rule. If we introduced offsetting tax increases to fund it, we could introduce an €800 million tax-raising measure that would bring us back to a 5% increase.
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