February’s CSO figures reveal 2286 unemployed in Dungarvan,Co. Waterford
Issued : Friday 5 March, 2010
RECORD LIVE REGISTER FIGURES HIGHLIGHTS GOVT INACTION ON JOBS Government claims that unemployment figures are levelling off will be cold comfort to the record 436,956 people unemployed. The live register figures published this week show an increase of over 84,500 since this time last year. Cllr. Conway stated that this must cast doubt on Fianna Fail claims that we are over the worst of the downturn. It is becoming increasingly clear that the Government has no plan to get out us of this grim situation. What is particularly disturbing is the fact that so many young people are out of work, with one third of the labour force, between the age of 20 and 24, now unemployed.
According to February’s CSO figures currently in Dungarvan, there are 2286 people unemployed. In the under 25 years category there are 411 young people unemployed.However unlike Fianna Fail and the Greens, Labour actually HAS a strategy which will create jobs and will create sustainable economic activity. We believe that we need a new National Development Plan which will provide funding for shovel ready projects in areas like health, education and transport. Our enterprise agencies should be properly funded so that they can support growth in jobs in the knowledge economy. More places in training and education should be made available so that when the economy does begin to recover, we have the required national skill-set to take advantage. Labour has consistently called for the creation of a special €1.150bn to get people back to work. Such a fund would deliver:* Enterprise supports, including PRSI scheme for new jobs* An additional 60,000 training and work experience places* The fast-tracking of labour intensive capital projects, there is no silver bullet to solve this dreadful problem, but we do need a plan urgently and this Government simply does not have one.
