Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 July 2016

Public Accounts Committee

2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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Mr. O’Kelly also has to explain - he said that he had received calls from investors – the GDP figures. He used the word “distortion”. What does he mean by that term in the sense of a distortion of the GDP or GNP figures? What is his understanding of the distortion?