Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2024

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

Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland

Mr. Gabriel Makhlouf:

Monetary policy works with lag. What we are actually seeing is that the decisions we started to take at the end of December 2021 - and we started to put up rates in July 2022 - are now working, are having an effect and are bringing inflation down. As I said, there is still some pass-through to come but at the moment I am pleased to see that our monetary policy is working.