Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

2:20 pm

Photo of Liam TwomeyLiam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Before I move to Deputy Pearse Doherty perhaps the delegation will say more on the way Europe seems to be a little behind the international economic trend of quantitative easing. The United States, the UK and China are doing it and Japan has launched a huge programme on same. What advice can the council give to the Government if Europe decides to take up what Mr. Barroso is saying or is said to be saying?