Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny: Economic and Social Research Institute

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Instead of giving subsidies, should Government policy be directed in some way – obviously, it has to be targeted – to try to find a mechanism to reduce costs and thereby counteract the imported inflation from energy and food costs? Should such a policy be pursued to try to keep control of inflation in Ireland?