Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We are dealing with apples and oranges in a way. The Department is stating that IFAC is taking it as granted that social welfare rates would be indexed. It will state it is a policy decision and it will strip out existing level of service. The IGEES recommendation is 3% of total current expenditure for the year. Would the IGEES's model of calculating existing level of service be an appropriate measure, with regard to 3% of total current expenditure for that given year? If IFAC were calculating on this basis, would the stability programme update still be under-providing? If so, by how much?