Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance

7:10 pm

Photo of Ciarán LynchCiarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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In layperson's terms, what people are focusing on this evening is drop of 1% in the predicted figure for next year's unemployment. As I mentioned, that is 2.5% below what the ERSI predicted a number of years ago. Where will those estimates come from? In which sectors will we see that increase?