Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 September 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI

Dr. Robert Kelly:

There is a nuance to the discussion of tax cuts versus spending. In a scenario analysis, spending is slightly more inflationary than tax cuts. The reason for this is when there is a tax cut, it will not all be spent as some of it will be saved whereas spending tends to be a direct injection of Government spending on something.

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