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:

Twice a year we produce a risk matrix, which we then publish as part of the budget and the stability programme update, SPU. This matrix looks at everything from geopolitical risks to trade protectionism and uncertainty in the US exchange rate realignment. It covers a whole range of those kinds of risks. When one is only allocated five minutes for an opening statement, one just covers what one can. I tried to keep the focus as much on the accounts as on anything else.