Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised)
9:00 am
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Many members present were involved in the banking inquiry, and there were several other third party inquiries, and all of them came to the conclusion that if we had operated countercyclical economic policies it would have been of great benefit during the crisis. In their simplest terms, countercyclical policies, as Deputies are aware-----