Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position
Dr. Mark Cassidy:
It is an important sector, but the figures it adds to some of our headline national accounts overstates its importance to the real economy. There will be see some hit to this sector, but the impact on the real economy will be much less than perhaps some of the headline figures might suggest.