National Risk Assessment
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-22
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

The mandate of Coillte should be all of those things: to produce timber for housing and building, for leisure and tourism and for climate and biodiversity. It should be a multiple mandate, not a single mandate, and that is the mandate, in my view.
I very much agree with what Deputy Gould said about us not seeing a wage-price spiral. That is not happening in Ireland. Inflation here is being caused by other factors, including monetary policy, that is, quantitative easing and a prolonged period of low interest rates, a pandemic that created a mismatch in supply and demand and also of course the war in Ukraine. However, just because we are not seeing a wage-price spiral, it does not mean we want to see one either.

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Sitting date: 2023-02-22