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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The sector has been lobbying this House for a number of years to move the budget cycle to earlier in the year so that the Christmas sales period is elongated and it is not just something that happens quickly after the budget, after which Christmas arrives and they go into the sales period.