Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)
2:00 am
Dr. Robert Kelly:
There are vulnerabilities with regard to the public finances, which we have pointed out that could suddenly stop. They are not domestically generated. This is the other big difference. The last time it was built on, a lot of it was domestically generated in terms of the construction boom. Right now we are more beholden to the actions of outsiders.