Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)

2:00 am

Dr. Robert Kelly:

On economic performance, I think the economy has run very strong. We have had exceptional growth in employment but we have probably run a fiscal environment that I would describe as stimulative at a point when the capacity constraints were becoming more and more binding.