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
3:00 pm
Professor John McHale:
We will certainly give that approach some thought. I will allow my colleagues to contribute in a moment. I wish to say one thing in terms of the additional adjustments we had called for earlier; they were largely back-loaded to 2014 and 2015 so if it had turned out that they were not needed, as is the case, we would have been in a position then to say that they were not needed. It is a question of timing.