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:

Exactly, and that is not a good idea. This is an inappropriate time to do that. The other thing we need to focus on is the many ways of addressing the infrastructure we have which do not involve spending a huge amount of public money. Many of the deficits we have are because of issues in the planning system and blockages that are not enabling the private sector to play its role. If you can enable those, it would not necessarily cost a huge amount of public money and could help to address the infrastructure deficits as well as the public spending playing its own role.