Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
5:00 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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That is not related to the old debate about non-indexation of tax rates, which is a discretionary Government policy, or increases in social welfare payments or public sector wages. These are unavoidable demographic and price pressures in the council's view. Am I correct that this is inflation kicking in?