Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance
6:00 pm
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The fiscal council has a specific job to do under law. In summary, it is supposed to give a contrarian view, an opposite view to that of the Government. If one goes back to the research done into the banking crisis and the collapse of the Irish economy, it was identified on a number of occasions-----