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

4:00 am

Photo of Mairéad FarrellMairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is all speculative. We do not know what will happen between today and tomorrow, let alone between today and 1 August. If the US continues to pursue the policy of the tariffs beyond this Administration and into the long term, it will have an impact on FDI and corporation tax here. What kind of policies could we pursue at that point? I presume our focus would have to be on building our own infrastructure and-----

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