Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 12:

In page 8, lines 28 and 29, to delete “in subsection (3)” and substitute “in any of its assessments”.

This is an amendment I raised on Committee Stage which required a fuller response from the Department to the advice of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. We noted that the advice in terms of budgetary matters and the adjustments had not been taken on board and I pointed out that the level of response was quite short. The amendment was intended to place an onus on the Minister, through legislation, to report. However, given that the Minister indicated on Committee Stage and again here that there would be a fuller response to the advice of the Fiscal Council in future, I do not intend to press this amendment.

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