Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance
10:00 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
Yes, that is a close enough estimate. It is a ballpark figure. Prime Minister May stated that she would consider the common travel area, which is a positive from a labour market perspective.
These are broad orders of magnitude and a health warning is attached to all model estimates, but these ones are reasonable.