Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC

2:00 pm

Photo of John Paul PhelanJohn Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I thank Mr. O'Brien for his interesting presentation. His opening comments on the two major issues that face the Irish economy, as he perceived them, are Brexit and what he described as policy reform in the USA. In terms of a political euphemism, his latter description was exquisite.