Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Ciarán Nugent:

-----and it is skewed. Irish income distribution and wage distribution is so skewed. It is unequal relative to other countries. We have seen that we get the distribution wage data a year later, but we rely on the average data for this year's. We ask is it a quarter away; is it three months away? When the distributional data comes out, and it has been through every year for the last five or six years, what has been driving that has been top incomes. The bottom 40%, 50% or 60% maybe have been pretty stagnant and seen very little change over the last five or six years.