Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

6:00 pm

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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This is more institutional to ensure there is equality of recognition. Employment Ministers find ways of putting a scoreboard of social indicators as prominently as the well-known scoreboards on fiscal. That has been adopted. A scoreboard is being introduced which includes unemployment rates; youth unemployment rates; the so-called not in education, employment or training, NEET; housing disposable income; and those at risk of poverty. There will a tracking of those indicators as well as the indicators that ECOFIN would track.