Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The most acute one in the short term is Brexit. In the medium term, it is what happens with growth within the eurozone and what happens in the debates that are due to happen on global tax and trade policies, but they are more medium term in nature. We have seen a lot of charged words regarding global trade, but we are still seeing economies, America in particular, that are growing and our trade with them is growing too. I would see all those as probably being more medium-term challenges, whereas Brexit is very much a short-term one.