Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

Activities and Priorities: Eurofound

3:50 pm

Photo of Seán CroweSeán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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The biggest difficulty we have in trying to map this is that, particularly in Ireland, we do not know whether they are new jobs or jobs as a result of emigration. Is emigration a factor that Eurofound takes into account in this survey, because in some European countries it would not be as high as it is in Ireland, which is part of the difficulty?

Mr. Menéndez-Valdés talked about the 51% good jobs. How does Ireland compare with the rest of Europe when it comes to those higher salaries? Does Mr. Menéndez-Valdés have figures for that?