Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
5:30 pm
Dr. Eddie Casey:
They were a lot closer than in many rounds. On this occasion, they would have been very close to what we had. We were not terribly surprised to see the forecast they initially presented to us. We finalised our own benchmark projections before we saw theirs. We go through a lot of internal rigorous exercise. This time, there was not a massive difference.