Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
5:30 pm
Mr. Niall Conroy:
Yes. There are a few different ways to try to estimate what the overrun will be. We took what we felt was quite a conservative approach. We basically took the percentage overrrun for the first four months of the year and assumed it would continue for the following eight months. If some of these other measures come into play, we could see the acceleration of that. We have even seen that in the one month since that because the overrun seems to have increased further.