Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The answer to Deputy Joan Burton's question is that we did not specifically ask the IMF to advise us on health reform or housing. I will consider it as it is always useful to have an external view from an international body on how one is doing.

Generally, we use the OECD for that, but we could potentially ask the IMF to do it. I am a little taken aback that a centre-left politician would ask us to bring in the IMF to advise us on health and housing. Given the IMF's view as to how to reform public services in other jurisdictions, I am not sure the answer we would get from the IMF would be supported by parties of the left, but it is never a harm to ask. It certainly gave us some good advice in the past during the bailout-----

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