Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

 

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The main provider of support for any economy in a shock like that will be the home Government. We will need flexibility from the European Commission in a number of different areas. It is possible that there will be a need for additional support from it. The main area in which we are most likely to have to deal with that will be the export of food.