Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland

2:00 am

Photo of Joe NevilleJoe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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I get it. This is not a question, but I will leave on the point that it is very hard to make those decisions in light of how it is set up, that being, the revenue we are getting and from whom we are getting it. How do we stop that and how do we make a budget surplus and put the money away in a rainy day fund when the political realities mean it is harder to do that type of thing?