Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny
Engagement with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
10:00 am
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Professor McHale knows more than most that data can be abused. The Office for Budget Responsibility in London has come out and said in regard to the election campaign that there was a massive abuse of data by some of the campaigners. That is why it is important to have as much data as possible but I take the point that a data dump will frustrate the committee. I am not sure how many parliamentarians read the reports of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council?