Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion

5:00 pm

Mr. Stefan Kuhnert:

A more important consideration is whether there is a rationale to ask for this. These recommendations are directed at countries which have elevated levels of public debt such that there is a risk to fiscal sustainability. This is why the recommendation was given.