Mr. Juan Menéndez-Valdés:

Yes. We consider wages as one element and career prospects and job stability a second element. Intrinsic job quality is the third one involving autonomy, health and safety and social support. The fourth element is about working-time quality.

We also work on youth unemployment and calculating the economic cost for society of young people not being in employment, education or training, NEETs. The Irish Government, when holding the Presidency of the Council in the first half of 2013, used our figures on the economic costs of NEETs to convince hesitant member states to agree the Youth Guarantee in April 2013.

Our role is to support policymakers at European and national level. Policymakers from Ireland can visit our offices which are based in south Dublin, roughly 10 km from here. We have 100 people from 21 different nationalities working there. The organisation will be 40 years old next year. Then we will have the opportunity to co-ordinate the whole network of 40 European Union agencies involved in our work.