{"id":294,"date":"2011-08-16T21:51:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T21:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/government-failure-to-create-jobs-leaves-little-option-for-leaving-cert-students-crowe\/"},"modified":"2011-08-16T21:51:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T21:51:26","slug":"government-failure-to-create-jobs-leaves-little-option-for-leaving-cert-students-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/government-failure-to-create-jobs-leaves-little-option-for-leaving-cert-students-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Government failure to create jobs leaves little option for leaving cert   students \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government failure to create jobs leaves little option for leaving cert<br \/> students \u2013 <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> TD has said the Government<br \/> must invest in a jobs creation package to stimulate the economy and to<br \/> give our young people a future in their own country.<\/p>\n<p> Deputy <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> was speaking at a protest held today by leaving cert<br \/> students who were highlighting the lack of employment options for them<br \/> as they leave school and the problem of emigration.<\/p>\n<p> Deputy <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> said:<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThousands of leaving certificate students will get their results<br \/> tomorrow but the unfortunate reality for many of them is that if they<br \/> cannot afford or do not want to go to college the only option open to<br \/> them is emigration. \u00a0That is the sad reality we live in today in<br \/> Ireland.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe failure of this and the previous government to invest in a proper<br \/> economic stimulus and job creation package has extended the unemployment<br \/> crisis.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cDespite the promises of both Fine Gael and Labour in the run up to the<br \/> general election they have delivered a miserable jobs initiative with<br \/> only \u20ac29 million of expenditure on capital projects and \u20ac11 million on<br \/> additional training places.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cFine Gael promised an investment of \u20ac7 billion to create 100,000 jobs.<br \/> Labour promised a jobs fund of \u20ac500 million and a Strategic Investment<br \/> Bank with funds of \u20ac2 billion.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cSinn Fein believes that the government must invest \u20ac2 billion from the<br \/> National Pension Reserve Fund to fast track labour intensive<br \/> infrastructure projects and to assist small and medium sized businesses<br \/> to save and create jobs.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe government should stop using taxpayers\u2019 money to bailout<br \/> unguaranteed bondholders. \u00a0Rather they should be using this money to<br \/> stimulate Ireland\u2019s domestic economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government failure to create jobs leaves little option for leaving cert students \u2013 Crowe Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has said the Government must invest in a jobs creation package to stimulate the economy and to give our young people a future in their own country. Deputy Crowe was speaking at a protest [&hellip;]<\/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-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}