Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Inflation: Discussion (resumed)

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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My apologies for arriving post-haste because, unfortunately, everything in my office crashed yesterday and that makes things difficult.

Inflation has the capacity to undo an awful lot of the hard work that is being done on the recovery from the financial crash and the ongoing pandemic. It is expected that inflation will level off somewhat as we come towards the end of the year and the beginning of next year. What issues are most likely to contribute to inflation? What issues are most likely to contribute to the reverse?