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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat. When NERI becomes TikTok famous, we will know where it started.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat, a Sheanadóir. There is a good chance we will have a second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: There may be a chance in the second round. This has gone over a bit longer than anticipated. Two other members have been waiting a long time. Senator Higgins can maybe come in on that when I am asking my questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Dr. McDonnell for what he has discussed so far. The budgetary oversight committee has dealt with tariffs somewhat. Entities such as IFAC, the ESRI and the Parliamentary Budget Office have come before that committee and we have had conflicting reports, which is totally understandable given the nature of this particular beast. Some feel that with the way things stand, most goods...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Does Dr. McDonnell mean that jobs will be lost or does he mean that no new jobs will be created?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Government policy in terms of retraining will be essential. If we are looking at how to negate some of the impacts of tariffs, potentially then one of the big sectors will be that relating to further education.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: And it will need to be made accessible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: That goes to Deputy Nash's point in terms of what has been done in Germany.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: There is that. It is important to see it as retraining. I do not like the concept of upskilling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It is retraining. People are well skilled no matter what area of work they are in. We could look at that retraining aspect in terms of Government policy. Another thing that I am interested in procurement policy and how the State uses the money it spends. For example, one of the big issues that comes up regularly - it came up again today - is investment in infrastructure. We need to look...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Again, if there is a social clause aspect to that in order to ensure that there are also apprentices coming on stream in places such as, for example, Donegal, where there is then a guarantee because you know the State is spending a specific amount there and the initiative is going to take five years to ten years to reach fruition.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It comes down to the fact that concepts such as those relating to retraining, apprenticeship models and so on are changing our psyche. That is important. At the moment, jobs that involve certain titles, etc., are sometimes prioritised. In the context of reshoring and tariffs, we are looking at a four-year term and at how many decisions will really be made by large companies during that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It is all speculative. We do not know what will happen between today and tomorrow, let alone between today and 1 August. If the US continues to pursue the policy of the tariffs beyond this Administration and into the long term, it will have an impact on FDI and corporation tax here. What kind of policies could we pursue at that point? I presume our focus would have to be on building our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: -----industrial policies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Because it would benefit us later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Does Dr. McDonnell comment on Senator Higgin's final question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We have a few minutes left if anyone wants to come back in. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Documentation would be great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: That is brilliant.