Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute

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

Okay. I can extrapolate from that that in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis where we expect inflation to decrease by 2025 across the EU at 2.1%, and less here next year, that one-off measures to provide support with the cost of living could be dealt with as non-core expenditure because they are genuinely only there to deal with the inflationary pressures on families.

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