Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Summer Economic Statement: Discussion
3:30 pm
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy is proposing we borrow more. That is a legitimate policy choice that he can advocate. Will he, however, give me an example of anyone - an economist because he frequently quotes economists, the Commission and other agencies to me - who would say that with debt as high as we have, with an economy moving to full employment, with growth as high as it is and with the capacity constraints we have in our economy, that we should borrow more?