Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance
6:10 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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Who tells who? Mr. McCarthy is the chief economist in the Department. I presume Mr. McCarthy informs the politicians that the expenditure benchmark is either €1.2 billion or €1.5 billion. I presume the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has already endorsed Mr. McCarthy's projections.