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
Mairéad 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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