Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach

Engagement with the Taoiseach

2:00 am

The Taoiseach:

It is not simple. Let us look at the economically disruptive events of the past five years. We have had Brexit, Covid-19, which upended society and the economy for a good two years, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.