The economy to take almost four years to get back to pre Covid activity. Ireland’s economy could take three and a half years to return to pre Covid levels of activity. That was the stark warning to the Oireachtas’s Covid Committee from the acting Chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Sebastian Barnes and he joined us on the show this morning.

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