Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Summer Economic Statement: Discussion

3:30 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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The €900 million the Government is refusing to invest would result in an improvement in the structural deficit according to the Government's own figures. It would reduce it by 0.2%. Will the Minister accept, therefore, that we would not be in breach of the fiscal rules in that scenario?