Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)
11:00 am
Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein)
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It does. I have two other follow-up questions, and I will be brief. It is important we hear about a social wage. We have only ever had conservative government in this country, so the social democratic concept of a social wage perhaps might not be as familiar as it should be. Could Dr. McDonnell tell us about what it means, and why it is so beneficial to a modern economy?