Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)

2:00 am

Dr. Robert Kelly:

Our current economic structure, in particular taxation, is dependent on corporation tax from US multinationals. The counterfactual to whether we are too dependent is difficult to understand but we are a small open economy, which creates vulnerability to the global system and within that global system we have a high dependencies on the US. That is the reality.