Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion

9:30 am

Ms Jean Carberry:

Yes, we do. Clearly, when we saw that drop we were astonished so we began digging into it straightaway. The first thing to say is that the goalposts changed. I am an accountant and, to me, it is rather astonishing that you can change the rules and not restate the prior ones, but that is what the Commission, in its wisdom, decided to do. The EU average has also dropped in the same period because of the change to the goalposts. We were at 84% last year and the EU was at 69.1%. We are now at 66.1% and the EU is at 57.7%. Our lead, however, has dropped on a relative basis. That is the important point.

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