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

Mr. Derek Moran:

-----but we have seen that begin to take off over the past couple of years. It has not got to the point where it fixes this problem but, for example, between this year and last year, and there is always a dispute about the number of new houses that are built because there is no single metric but if we look across all the piece, ESB connections are up 27%, commencement notices are up 25%, planning permissions are up 23%-----