Emigration masking real unemployment figures<\/p>\n
Local representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD\u00a0 has said that emigration is masking the real uneployment figures and that the Government needs to use the European Union Presidency to address unemployment across Europe.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said;<\/p>\n
“The needs to use the opportunity of the EU Presidency to encourage stimulas\u00a0 measures to tackle unemployment right across Europe <\/p>\n
“The Government latest spin on the Central Statistics Office\u2019s live register\u2019s figures as showing a decrease in unemployment is fooling no one especially those stuck on the dole or so called training schemes that are progessing nowhere. The reality\u00a0 is\u00a0 that unemployment especially youth unemployment, is rising and has hardly budged since this government came to power at the last election.on the promise of creating 100,000 plus jobs.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmigration is\u00a0 having a\u00a0 huge detrimental effect on\u00a0 society and the 15-24 age group is shrinking significantly.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2006 there were 638,000 people of this age group in the country. In January 2012 the number had fallen by 130,000, and almost all accounted for by emigration.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the years leading up to crash, there were about 325,000 employed under-25s in the State. That has reduced to 130,000.and\u00a0 for every 10 jobs that existed at the beginning of 2008, six have now disappeared.<\/p>\n
“Emigration is even taking its toll on the Irish birth rate.<\/p>\n
“There were 1,200 fewer born in 2011 than the previous year mostly due to the high emigration rate amongst young mothers.<\/p>\n
“Last month the IMF in its quarterly review stated, \u2018had all employees who lost their jobs since the outset of the crisis remained in the labor force, the unemployment rate would stand at around 20 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is the reality of unemployment\u00a0 facing more and more families today. <\/p>\n
“We need an honest debate around how to tackle\u00a0 unemployment and the government needs to use its Presidency of the European Union\u00a0 to encourage new measures that will stimulate the Europen economy The Government also needs\u00a0 to inject a dose of reality into the debate and bring to a halt to all the\u00a0 nonsense\u00a0 talk that\u00a0 austerity measures are somehow working for communities and workers all across europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Emigration masking real unemployment figures Local representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD\u00a0 has said that emigration is masking the real uneployment figures and that the Government needs to use the European Union Presidency to address unemployment across Europe. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said; “The needs to use the opportunity of the EU Presidency to encourage stimulas\u00a0 measures to […]<\/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-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}