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. Seamus Coffey:

I do not have the number in my head, but it is low compared to the 1980s when it was the majority of the live register and the post-2008 period, in 2010, 2011 and 2012, when a very significant number were on the live register for more than a year. If we look at the figures now, and I do not have them to hand, we call the current figures low relative to that.