Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance

5:15 pm

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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With regard to the interpretation of those rules by the Government and the Fiscal Council, obviously the Government has said that in the next five years the figures take into account the demographic and inflationary pressures, however the Fiscal Council is of the view that it does not adequately account for them. Is there not a necessity for a more uniform interpretation of those rules by the Government and the Fiscal Council?