Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance
Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed)
11:00 am
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy is missing the point. It is a very clever debating point but it is not accurate. I am not trying to "out-data" anybody. I am saying that there is domestically-generated CSO data from January of this year which was not used in the Deputy's main reference, namely, Mr. McWilliams's television programme. Once the current data from the CSO are taking into account, Mr. McWilliams's programme, which was based on the incomplete Credit Suisse data, looks rather exaggerated. That is the point I am making.