Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The recommendations will undoubtedly focus on what countries are doing about their NEETs and youth unemployment rates. These will be the drivers of the country-specific recommendations. That is the reason it is so important to get a score card that has broader social rather than solely fiscal elements. We would expect in Ireland's case, as has happened in the past, that they will look at activation, our skills, research and development, how effectively various markets are working and access to finance. They will be the types of thing to which we would again expect to see country-specific recommendations apply in Ireland. However, obviously that is only speculation. We have yet to see them.