In the first seven months of this year, Irish HO Holds saved about $ 10 billion. Ibek says the government could represent a major economic stimulus opportunity ahead of the 2021 budget.

The Business Lobby Group predicts that Irish gross domestic product (GDP) will decline by 2.6 percent by 2020 as a result of the financial crisis related to the epidemic. Recent data shows that domestic demand fell by one-fifth in the second quarter. Exports have proven to be stronger than anywhere else in the European Union.

In its quarterly economic outlook, published this morning, Ibek said that the “inability to spend” saved employees $ 9.8 billion in the first seven months of 2020 and that Irish banks held $ 20 billion more than they owed.

The lobbying group says the main difference between this recession and the end of 2008 is that these resources are the country’s current export and public investment strength.

We have recently drawn attention to the way in which Irish families are rapidly taking control in the wake of the financial crisis. This is due to the financial crisis, the elimination of debt, and the unaffordable pricing of public assets, such as housing, ”the report said.

“This protective behavior was charged by Kovid Turbocharged. It saved $ 9.8 billion in the first seven months of 2020. This is $ 5.5 billion more than in 2019, and $ 7.3 billion more than in the same period in 2018. ”

If the government can encourage employees to spend or invest with confidence, this coveted savings represents a “major stimulus opportunity,” Ibek says.

The group says Ireland is currently experiencing a K-shaped recovery as the gap between businesses and employees is widening, with businesses and employees proving financially viable during the Pandemic, with significant declines in income and opportunity.

The lobby group warned that the growing risk areas of Brexit, a non-commercial transaction, would widen this gap between institutions and employees.

Despite the government’s $ 9.4 billion deficit in the first three quarters of this year, tax revenues remain strong, according to figures released by the Treasury Department on Friday.

Finance Minister Pascal Donohue said the figures were released two weeks before the next budget. Assumption of non-commercial transaction Brexit.

Public Expenditure Minister Michael McGrath said the government expects “a significant portion” of Covid-19 ancillary spending to return next year from this year.

Echoing this, Donohue said next year’s finances will be “very different” because the government will have to plan for extraordinary spending from “going forward” from this year to next.

“Can you tell me what this means for our deficit for next year? I can’t be honest at the moment, ”Donoho said.

Ibek said the key to the 2021 budget is not the challenge of a community with very few resources, but the challenge of finding the right channels to move those resources and getting people back to work.

IBEC chief economist Gerard Brady said the budget should see the government make the right decisions by introducing measures aimed at protecting the most affected sectors and workers from the double threats of Kovid and Brexit.