Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion

5:00 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I just wish to clarify this point and I would like the witness to make it clear. With regard to Ireland, which is in the middle, having not met the medium-term objective and being in the preventative programme, the Commission statement does not allow us to increase the fiscal space available to us. Is the Commission recommending that we use the fiscal space available to us in next year's budget?