Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment
Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Ms Aoife McBride:
You have to make living more affordable. Increasing the minimum wage is not making it any more affordable for anybody. It is pushing up the price of everything so it is not really the minimum wage increase that is going to do anything.
Outside of that, where is the wealth? We are the richest poor country or the poorest rich country - whatever way you want to say it. I am 45 years of age. I live at home with my mother and my daughter and I own my own business. That is tragic. What is this country like? What are we doing? There is loads of money and nobody seems to have it. I do not know.
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