Irish Government and social welfare sods!

Clampdown, you've admitted the government can't create jobs out of thin air. I 100% agree that multinationals should pay more tax, but that's a bit of a tangent when we're talking about jobs.

I see the recovery in Galway and in Dublin - help wanted signs where there were none for years, my friends and I who moved abroad have started coming home and the majority are in work. You could see it at Christmas that it was very different to a few years ago.

I did several unpaid internships in Ireland and the U.K. in my early 20s and they set me up for where I am today. It's **** that that's necessary but research suggests that more than 60% of people who do Jobsbridge get a job out of it, so it can't be that bad.

thattequilagirl wrote: »

Clampdown, you've admitted the government can't create jobs out of thin air. I 100% agree that multinationals should pay more tax, but that's a bit of a tangent when we're talking about jobs.

I see the recovery in Galway and in Dublin - help wanted signs where there were none for years, my friends and I who moved abroad have started coming home and the majority are in work. You could see it at Christmas that it was very different to a few years ago.

I did several unpaid internships in Ireland and the U.K. in my early 20s and they set me up for where I am today. It's **** that that's necessary but research suggests that more than 60% of people who do Jobsbridge get a job out of it, so it can't be that bad.

The research actually says that 60% got work within a year of doing Jobbridge, meaning anyone who got work anywhere during that year was counted as a 'Jobbridge success'. They tried to portray it as if 60% were kept on by the host company, it is nowhere near that amount in reality. It doesnt even mean they got work in the field they interned in. It means basically 60% of people willng to work for free eventually got some kind of work somewhere. 40% slaved away for 50 quid for 9 months and went back to the dole queue. That's not acceptable.

It's great that there is a recovery in Galway and Dublin. Wonder how long it will take me to save enough of my dole (most weeks there is about a tenner left over, and no I don't smoke or drink) to have enough for a security deposit for a 1200 per month flat/glorified closet?

We can't all move to Dublin, and the issue we're talking about is canvassers in our respective local areas coming to to the door looking for votes on the basis that we should keep them in because we are all enjoying this recovery. But many of us are not. In my town, since the start of the year 2 pubs, 2 shops and a medical device factory called Elanco which had 100+ people employed there have closed down. That doesn't look very 'recovery-ish' to me.

If you want to buy the gov spin and are loving the austerity, go ahead and shake hands with your FG/Lab canvassers. I probably won't even get up to answer the door, I'm flat out trying to figure out how much more it's going to cost to get my rubbish taken away now with the new Pay By Weight system Alan Kelly just signed off on. Another tax, another cut, another bul spit scheme to skew the unemployment numbers. More families torn apart by having children and grandchildren forced to emigrate. Sure it's grand.

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