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

Photo of Mairéad FarrellMairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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Fair enough. The issue is the lack of data. I had a Bill in the Dáil last week and it will be voted on tomorrow night but has been pushed down for two years. It is about the whole concept of having the data at least. It not necessarily saying that everything is going to be an overspend or anything like that. It is about the fact that if we are spending that amount of money in economy, then we need to know where it is going, how it is being spent, what it is being spent on and how we can actually improve the economy for the people here. That is what I wanted to come back in on. Does Mr. Coffey have anything else to say on it?