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

Mr. John McCarthy:

I am afraid I cannot give that information. There are so many things that are works in progress. There are a million and one parts that feed into the budgetary calculations - the general government budget, GGB, calculations. The economy is one issue, but there are many others, including the amount of consolidation and all the below-the-line issues that arise, so I simply cannot give that information at this stage, and neither have I a mandate to do so.