Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Engagement
3:30 pm
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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We obviously have to invest in infrastructure, including the infrastructure Dr. McDonnell has talked about. Putting funds away until 2040 is all well and good and it is laudable, but we need to fix the infrastructure to maintain our competitiveness and expand foreign direct investment in order to ensure we are not reliant on three multinational companies. That is hugely important.
Dr. McDonnell referred to how we have an economy of winners and losers. Who are the losers?