Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute
2:00 am
Dr. Conor O'Toole:
Exactly, the real wage is rising. What you can have there is a feedback, as the Chair said earlier, back into wages and into prices again. We get these second-round effects that can escalate price pressures. That is a particular risk. One of the risks we mentioned in our commentary, coming back to the windfall element, relates to the fiscal stance, that is, how much money the Government is putting into a fast-growing economy that is at capacity. That certainly is a risk, in terms of putting too much money into the economy too quickly when it really does not need that stimulus. Economies at low unemployment do not need government stimulus.
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