Dr. Frank Walsh:

It is important that the commission spends much time thinking about the appropriate way to measure how high the minimum wage is. We have adopted a standard where it is important to look at the minimum wage relative to the wages in the country itself, rather than comparing the level of the minimum wage in Ireland with that in Latvia or a country that is very different. When we do that, it is a different picture, and we are more in the middle when looking at relative minimum wage.