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

7:50 pm

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I expect they might be very interesting, and I intend to seek them out. There is a very strange contradiction going on here, which Mr. McCarthy has acknowledged is difficult to explain, in that we have jobs but no growth. I accept that he might not have all the answers today, but the issue certainly requires further analysis.

I understand the CSO has estimated that 40,000 people are leaving the country every year.