Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

Social Dimension of Economic and Monetary Union: Discussion (Resumed)

3:00 pm

Photo of Dara MurphyDara Murphy (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will now bring in my other two colleagues, but when wrapping up I would like you to make some comment about the indicators that the Commission has suggested. The Commission wants a fairly narrow group of indicators in order to make analysis easier. These include the unemployment level as measured by the NEET rate, which is the number of people not in education, employment or training, the real growth in disposable income of households, the at-risk-of-poverty rate of the working-age population, and a broader inequality measurement using the 80:20 ratio. I would like the witnesses to make some comment on that. I call on Deputy Kyne.

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