Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
5:00 pm
Professor John McHale:
No. We just had our final meeting and we will have dinner later so we will have a general chat about it. I will not be leaving any notes. We have achieved a great deal over the past five and half years, a huge amount of it due to the excellent secretariat we put in place. We have led to there being a greater understanding of the budgetary framework that has been put in place and why it is of value to us as a country. I hope my successor will continue to communicate the message of the need to continue to do good fiscal analysis to understand that framework and its value. We play our part to make sure that we do not make the mistakes that were made previously, which was essentially the reason the council was put in place.