Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 March 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Scrutiny of European Commission Country Report Ireland 2019 and European Semester

Mr. Carlos Martínez Mongay:

I understand that the Deputy disagrees with the Commission, but I would like to understand what he disagrees with it on. I think the final goal of any policymaker - the Commission or a national government - is to increase living standards while keeping the best possible egalitarian distribution of income. In principle, these are two objectives which are generally agreeable for almost everybody.