Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion
4:10 pm
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Does Ms Burke also accept that, in line with IBEC's overall orientation around economic buoyancy, consumer demand and customer confidence, people on fixed incomes, that is, social welfare recipients, are part of that equation too and that to cut those very basic fixed payments has a deflationary effect and affects consumer confidence and demand?