Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 April 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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That is fine. With regard to the figures, I do not know whether "amused" is the word. I certainly came here as a greenhorn and remain so with regard to financial matters, but listening to the questions put today by my colleagues I find it extraordinary. The Department is obliged under the fiscal rules to use GDP to report back. Is this a legal obligation?