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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: The council has brought in a medium-term forecast and is examining it over the next four years rather than two years. It feels the Irish economy can take the strain a bit more over these years and wants the economy not to have as much of a burden from 2015 onwards. Am I correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: That underlies the council's premise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: A summary of the council's argument would be that exiting the excessive deficit procedure is a red-line issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Senator can make the introductions. I am worried about the bubble in house prices. How does one combine house price inflation of 10% with an unemployment rate of 11%? We should think in terms of rules, as we have mentioned to the Governor during his appearances, whereby no loan should be in excess of 80% of the house price and a limit of two and a half times income should be applied....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are the Senator's lectures always this interesting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: The witnesses can make observations rather than provide answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: I refer to the excessive deficit procedure. This will be the first year in which there is growth in consumption. The rate was -0.3% in 2012 and -1.1% in 2013. We are looking at 2% in 2014. These are Government figures. Is there a danger that if there are the full €2 billion of cuts this year, and Deputy Humphreys referred to this earlier, it will have an adverse impact on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Professor McHale is keeping them all guessing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: We appreciate the great work done by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Professor McHale has one topic for the agenda tomorrow anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Extremes polarise the political and economic systems of a society. Is this a factor in the fiscal area of the economy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Education.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am conscious of time and I wish to conclude in the next five minutes or so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Deputy can ask a brief question, after which I wish to let in Deputy Mathews to conclude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: It took the Deputy about an hour of questioning to get to that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the Deputy have a question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Deputy Mathews-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: I have no doubt they will take all that on board. As we have met for almost three and a half hours, I thank Professor McHale, his colleagues and his back-room team.