Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Mr. Ian Talbot:

However, people are still concerned about the costs that matter to them, buying a house, child care, education and so on. The things people are concerned about, the things people aspire to, are just getting out of reach. It is inflation in another way. The published inflation figures have remained very low or stagnant.

However, people are seeing that the costs of their aspirations are getting away from them.