Louise Byrne

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The Claire Byrne Show · An economic forecast is coming from Government today · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

Now, as part of this, obviously, the war is continuing in the Middle East and the impact of the war in Iran is having huge impact on the energy prices and fuel prices.

and all of these kinds of things.

So as part of the spring economic forecast, Pánaiste Simon Harris, who's also the finance minister, asked officials in the Department of Finance to put together three scenarios to see what would happen kind of in the good, bad and ugly situation, I guess you could say.

So what they have come back with is three scenarios.

So the baseline scenario, which you would imagine is if nothing

you know, if everything went back to normal, etc., then you have the adverse scenario and the severe scenario.

So what we are expecting ministers to be told this morning is that in all of these scenarios...

Ireland's economic growth will continue.

However, depending on which scenario you're in, that economic growth will just be at a slower rate.

So the Tánaiste are very keen to stress yesterday that, you know, we're coming at this from a good place no matter what happens.

But Jack Chambers is also expected to tell ministers at Cabinet this morning with his public expenditure hat on that they also need to control their spending and rein in their spending.

So that's a message we've heard before from him.

Whether he will have any impact this time is anybody's guess.

But, you know, they seem to be trying to warn them that things might not go as well as is expected.

One would imagine so.

We obviously know that Hildegard Nocton has defended a near 500 million euro overspend in the Department of Education and said that, you know, when she went into the department in November, it would have been that she thought it was underfunded.

And, you know, this has been a long running overspend in the department.

It certainly didn't start with Hildegard Nocton.

But Jack Chambers has kind of been steadfast and has warned that if one department is to have an overspend

where the money is going to have to be found from other ministers' departments to match it and to kind of try plug the hole.

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