Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund

11:30 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

I wish to add one comment. Deputy Devlin made a valid point about the State savings schemes and so forth. One of the real issues at the moment is not so much State savings but household savings. That is probably where Deputy Devlin was coming from. There has been a vast increase in household savings. It seems to be mostly at the commercial banks but I imagine it would affect the State savings schemes as well. We have seen data from the period from March to August. It is double what it was in the same period last year. That is a valid point.