Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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The fiscal treaty limited what we could do in terms of expenditure, deficits and all the rest, but there is the potential of that surplus being used.

There does not appear to be a restriction on the surplus being used to build thousands of extra houses, for example.