Patricia Ryan (Kildare South, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have just joined the meeting because I was at another event. I apologise for that. I was going to ask about the vacant property tax. The witnesses covered it in some of their replies to Deputy Mairéad Farrell's questions.

Given that Amazon recently announced that it plans to lay off 9,000 more workers, does the ESRI believe that Ireland's economic forecast should be revised? Has the ESRI a rough estimate of how many employees might be affected by the sad news of job losses in this State?