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

Photo of Seán CanneySeán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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I have one last question. I did my leaving certificate in the mid-1970s and for whatever reason, there were no jobs at the time. When I was in the construction industry there was very little work in the early 1980s, then we had the boom and it was followed by the situation in 2008. Should we be doing specific analysis to generate lessons for the future? I include how we performed during Covid and in the energy crisis to see what we did right and whether what we did was by good luck or good management. We should learn from these kinds of events so that we are better prepared for unknown events in the future.