Seamus Coffey, chairman of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. The council has warned the Government over the rate of public spending. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni/The Irish Times
Growth in Government spending is higher than appropriate levels, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has warned.
It said that given the economy was already performing well, it did “not need support from fast increases in Government spending”.
Speaking at the Oireachtas committee on budgetary oversight on Tuesday council chairman Seamus Coffey said increasingly bumper
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