Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
5:00 pm
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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One potential way to square the circle by meeting the need for investment while running a tight ship without repeating the mistakes of the past is to meet the target that avoids this convergence margin. The council made the point in its report that on the current trajectory, we will miss our structural balance targets for next year and, in fact, we may be missing them this year. Is that not correct?