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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Little choice causes surge in emigration
By Mary Ellen Breen
EDUCATED young people need an incentive to stay in Ireland and Waterford Senator Paudie Coffey believes jobs will keep them here.
Speaking about the latest CSO figures on unemployment, Senator Coffey has questioned whether the Government has a strategy to deal with the serious issue of youth unemployment in Ireland today.
CSO figures have revealed that unemployment in the under-25 age group has reached 2,834 in Waterford County.
Senator Coffey said, “This Government is great when it comes to drawing up bailouts to save the friends of Fianna Fáil in the banks. Yet they have no bailout for young people in this country when it comes to unemployment, instead they are happy to see them in dole queues or emigrating.”
“I want to know what plan this Government has to tackle this crisis, how are they going to stem the emigration of young people and how are they going to get young people off the dole queues and back to work. This crisis has been building for sometime and yet there doesn’t appear to be any plan from Government.”
He laid out Fine Gael’s plans to reduce the number of people on the live register by 30,000 through internships, community employment schemes, education, apprenticeships and work-share programmes.
“If the Government doesn’t have a plan to tackle this crisis, it should stop playing party politics and adopt Fine Gael’s jobs plan. Keeping young, well educated people in Ireland and in work is in everybody’s interests,” Senator Coffey said.
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