Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed)
Dr. Robert Kelly:
Regardless, our view is we have created domestic spending room. The credibility we can even build within that is invaluable to the State. The previous budget went above that. To the fact that relative to sticking within that rule, the measures did create inflation. We did a counterfactual exercise to understand the extent of it but we would still feel that relative to sticking within the spending framework, it was somewhat inflationary.