Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I thank Dr. Sweeney for the presentation. In his paper, Dr. Sweeney suggests moving to a debt servicing cost as a benchmark of fiscal sustainability. How would that benchmark be anchored? Would it be as a percentage of GDP? Could Dr. Sweeney explain in greater detail he would like to have seen in relation to that?