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:

The Deputy is right, but the model assumes no policy reaction. It is a pure model situation in which no policy is imposed. It assumes that the Government does not respond to the deterioration in the public finances.