Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)
2:00 am
Dr. Martin O'Brien:
They are certainly a good starting point, and it is better to have them than not but if we look at the overarching design and implementation of those funds, they will help us address some of these longer term costs, particularly on the infrastructure side but also on the ageing side.
In and of themselves they are not necessarily going to be sufficient to cover some of the ageing costs that we are going to face in the future, for example, so there are other actions that would be need to be taken on that.