Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Finance recently published Ireland 2040, which aimed to do that from a demographic point of view. Later in the year, we will publish that work that looks at long-term budget planning and economic planning within our country. Nevertheless, the ability to do that, given the number of shocks we have faced in recent years, is not as great as some people think.