Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015
9:00 am
Mr. Derek Moran:
Our job as officials in the Department of Finance is to set the financial framework in which the Government makes all of its policy choices across all of the areas referenced by the Deputy. When it comes to an analysis of the economy, the indicators are the ones about which I spoke. Within any financial framework the Government of the day makes choices as to where it will invest and how it will address the problems to which the Deputy is alluding. I am not denying in any way that there are problems.