16 Samh 2011, 14:42
Representatives from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council will attend the meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform tomorrow, Thursday, 17th November to discuss the findings of its Fiscal Assessment Report which was published last month.
Committee Chairman, Alex White TD said: “The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council was established in June 2011 to independently assess, and comment publicly on, whether the Government is meeting its own stated budgetary targets and objectives. In its report which was published in October it recommended that the Government brings in a larger than currently planned package of spending cuts and tax increases to get our budget deficit down much quicker than is currently envisaged. Tomorrow will be the Council’s first appearance before an Oireachtas Committee and we are looking forward to examining the report in-depth. We will have an opportunity to question Council members on their budgetary analysis, their assessment of the current fiscal situation, how they arrived at their figures for cuts and tax increases over the coming years and their rationale for recommending greater cuts and tax increases.”
This meeting will take place tomorrow, Thursday, 17th November, in Committee Room 4, Leinster House 2000 at 2pm.
Committee proceedings can be followed live at:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/ViewDoc.asp?fn=/documents/livewebcast/Web-Live.htm&CatID=83&m=o
For further information please contact:
Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2
P: +3531 618 3903
M: 086-0496518
F: +3531 618 4551
Committee Membership
Deputies
Richard Boyd-Barret, People Before Profit
Thomas P. Broughan, Labour Party
Michael Creed, Fine Gael
Jim Daly, Fine Gael
Pearse Doherty, Sinn Fein
Stephen Donnelly, Independent
Sean Fleming, Fianna Fail
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party
Heather Humphreys, Fine Gael
Kevin Humphreys, Labour Party
Peter Mathews, Fine Gael
Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Fein
Michael McGrath, Fianna Fail
Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael
Seán Ó Fearghaíl, Fianna Fail
Jonathan O’Brien, Sinn Fein
Kieran O’Donnell, Fine Gael
Arthur Spring, Labour Party
Billy Timmins, Fine Gael
Liam Twomey, Fine Gael
Alex White, Labour Party
Senators
Sean D Barrett, Independent
Thomas Byrne, Fianna Fail
Michael D’Arcy, Fine Gael
Aideen Hayden, Labour Party
Tom Sheahan, Fine Gael
Katherine Zappone, Independent