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
Richard 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.