Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach

The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute

2:20 am

Photo of Shay BrennanShay Brennan (Dublin Rathdown, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I think I probably already know the answer to this one, and Dr. McDonnell definitely cannot put a firm figure on it. He provided a lot of statistics and potential economic impacts using concrete numbers in respect of a 10% tariff. Is a 30% tariff three times as bad as 10% or is the impact exponential?

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