Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion
5:00 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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That is exactly the point I wanted to make. The witness responded to one of my colleague's questions and he stated that Ireland should not have an expansionary fiscal policy because there are indications that the country could be overheating. The witness spoke about the output gap. Is it his view that we should not have an expansionary policy or is it that we should use the fiscal space, which obviously is an expansionary policy?