{"id":584,"date":"2013-01-06T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/taoiseach-agrees-to-take-a-serious-look-at-youth-employment-suggestions-from-crowe\/"},"modified":"2013-01-06T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T21:11:08","slug":"taoiseach-agrees-to-take-a-serious-look-at-youth-employment-suggestions-from-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/taoiseach-agrees-to-take-a-serious-look-at-youth-employment-suggestions-from-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach agrees to take a serious look at youth employment suggestions from Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taoiseach agrees to take a serious look at youth<\/span> employment suggestions from Crowe<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe<\/span> TD, has received assurances from the Taoiseach that he will take a serious look into suggestions to reduce youth<\/span> unemployment that Deputy Crowe<\/span> raised with him in the D\u00e1il.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Crowe<\/span> raised the issue with the Taoiseach in the D\u00e1il during Post-European Council statements, which focused on Ireland\u2019s EU Presidency in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n


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The Tallaght based TD said:<\/span><\/p>\n


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\u201cIt is good to hear that Ireland\u2019s EU Presidency will focus on youth<\/span> unemployment. Like everyone, across all parties and none, I want to see this acted on and delivered during the six months of Ireland’s Presidency. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


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\u201cWe know some countries in the European Union have introduced measures that have kept youth<\/span> unemployment at a low level. Countries like Ireland, with an unacceptably high level of youth<\/span> unemployment, need to look seriously at many of the credible and viable initiatives and adapt them to our local needs and conditions.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n


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\u201cEarlier this month, the EU Commission launched its action plan on youth<\/span> jobs. Young people across Europe were waiting and hoping that something concrete would emerge or that new thinking would gain traction. The plan is welcome but it is weak and, crucially, it does not commit to any new funding to tackle youth<\/span> unemployment as a problem that needs its own focus. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


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\u201cYouth<\/span> unemployment is running at approximately 30% in this State. In Dublin South-West it is over 40%, but some estates in Tallaght have rates far above that. If we could factor in the young people who have left because of the lack of work, the figure would increase dramatically. <\/span><\/p>\n


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\u201cIn the recent budget, one element created a push factor by reducing the time people are eligible for jobseeker’s benefit. We hope progress can be made on youth<\/span> unemployment during the next six months but people are not holding their breath with the Commission\u2019s weak and vague plan.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n


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\u201cMy suggestion is that there is nothing stopping the launch of a young entrepreneurs fund during the Irish Presidency. It could be funded by the European Investment Bank and, in view of the crisis in youth<\/span> unemployment, if the fund is too low nothing stops member states increasing their subscription to the EIB for such a fund. <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


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\u201cWe should do something concrete during the Presidency. The Taoiseach referred to the employment, social policy, health and consumer affairs, EPSCO, meeting taking place during February, with youth<\/span> unemployment the main focus. We need to move beyond that and put something concrete in place. <\/span><\/p>\n


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\u201cThere is a common agreement across society that youth<\/span> unemployment is a major crisis facing all EU countries. I suggest putting something in place. There is a view that because of the timing this is falling on the shoulders of the Irish Presidency, but I would also like to think we are genuine in moving the issue of youth<\/span> unemployment forward in 2013.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n


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\u201cThe adaption of the funding arrangement could also be looked at in view of the crisis with the 50:50 requirement being altered to a more realistic 75:25 for youth<\/span> jobs in disadvantaged communities and regions. <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


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\u201cThe bank recapitalisation could call on something like \u20ac700 billion from the European Stability Mechanism. Surely we can come up with some realistic proposals emerging during the Presidency for such a project considering there is so much common agreement across Europe to tackle youth<\/span> unemployment.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taoiseach agrees to take a serious look at youth employment suggestions from Crowe Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has received assurances from the Taoiseach that he will take a serious look into suggestions to reduce youth unemployment that Deputy Crowe raised with him in the D\u00e1il. Crowe raised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}