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29/01/2015
Fianna Fáil Slams Action Plan For Jobs As 'PR Exercise'
Fianna Fáil has described the government's Action Plan for Jobs as "a PR exercise that ignores long-term unemployed, ignores Ireland's competitiveness challenge and offers pure lip service to the regions".
The party's spokesperson for jobs, Dara Calleary, said: "Once again we are being treated to a spinfest around job creation, a spinfest that frustrates job seekers and that ignores fundamental problems within our country.
"The recent CSO figures suggest that there are over 80,000 people who have been on the Live Register since then and are still on it today. What is being done for them? What is being done for the 165,000 people who have been signing on for more than a year? Spin is not a solution. We need focused training and re-skilling schemes that are targeted towards the skills base of these people and that offer them an opportunity to achieve sustainable long-term unemployment. The current activation programmes, which account for an additional 87,000 people, do not address these needs."
(MH/CD)
The party's spokesperson for jobs, Dara Calleary, said: "Once again we are being treated to a spinfest around job creation, a spinfest that frustrates job seekers and that ignores fundamental problems within our country.
"The recent CSO figures suggest that there are over 80,000 people who have been on the Live Register since then and are still on it today. What is being done for them? What is being done for the 165,000 people who have been signing on for more than a year? Spin is not a solution. We need focused training and re-skilling schemes that are targeted towards the skills base of these people and that offer them an opportunity to achieve sustainable long-term unemployment. The current activation programmes, which account for an additional 87,000 people, do not address these needs."
(MH/CD)
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