Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Dr. Eddie Casey:
To some extent, they are trying to figure this out at the same time. Some of the themes that we are hearing are that lots of countries introduced temporary measures. I mean very large amounts during Covid and the cost-of-living crisis and in response to the war. Rather than see those temporary amounts unwind, they are seeing them not only remain but change in form and other things that looked like they might be more long lasting and less to do with those specific issues that arose at a very specific point in time being classed into the same bracket. The worry is that it is becoming a much more nebulous term.
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