Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

2:00 am

Mr. Niall Conroy:

Some of this is being framed as jobs being lost or employment being lost. It could just be that jobs are not created. The uncertainty effect of these tariffs means large companies do not make an investment in a plant here they otherwise would have made, if we had a stable trade policy over that period.