Posted by Robert Troy TD
The crisis in youth unemployment has reached alarming levels according to Longford-Westmeath Fianna Fáil TD Robert Troy.Deputy Troy was speaking after the party launched its National Strategy to Tackle Youth Unemployment. There are currently 1,699 signing on the Live Register in Westmeath and 860 in Longford.
He said: “The unemployment crisis is the greatest crisis facing the country. The inability to find a job is particularly hard on young people. I think the hopelessness that chronic youth unemployment can bring is not limited to the individual affected, nor indeed to their immediate families. Youth unemployment is having a silent and terrible impact on communities across the country. I know from my own community that we are losing people to emigration on a weekly basis.
“The Government has launched three job creation initiatives but despite this problem reaching the stage where 1 in 3 young people under the age of 30 are now out of work, there have not been any specific measures for this age group.“I believe that the particular issue of youth unemployment is one that public representatives from every part of the political spectrum should be working together to tackle. Job creation is too important for party politics. I see the difficulty facing young people in Westmeath and Longford every week. They’re looking for work and running out of hope.
“For our part, Fianna Fáil has been working over recent months to develop a detailed plan aimed at tacking youth unemployment and making it clear to this generation that we as a country are serious about giving them hope and getting them jobs.“Some of the measures we are calling for include 100,000 new information and communications technology training places over the next four years and an additional 5,000 JobBridge placements for those under 25. We are also proposing radical reform of education, welfare and employment services. In this spirit, we are proposing an immediate pilot scheme introducing education and training vouchers. This would put the young people in question back in control of their own plans and help stem the flow of emigration.
“Ours is an affordable and realistic plan, with a wide range of measures including those I’ve mentioned here. I would ask that these ideas be given urgent consideration by Fine Gael and Labour.”
He said: “The unemployment crisis is the greatest crisis facing the country. The inability to find a job is particularly hard on young people. I think the hopelessness that chronic youth unemployment can bring is not limited to the individual affected, nor indeed to their immediate families. Youth unemployment is having a silent and terrible impact on communities across the country. I know from my own community that we are losing people to emigration on a weekly basis.
“The Government has launched three job creation initiatives but despite this problem reaching the stage where 1 in 3 young people under the age of 30 are now out of work, there have not been any specific measures for this age group.“I believe that the particular issue of youth unemployment is one that public representatives from every part of the political spectrum should be working together to tackle. Job creation is too important for party politics. I see the difficulty facing young people in Westmeath and Longford every week. They’re looking for work and running out of hope.
“For our part, Fianna Fáil has been working over recent months to develop a detailed plan aimed at tacking youth unemployment and making it clear to this generation that we as a country are serious about giving them hope and getting them jobs.“Some of the measures we are calling for include 100,000 new information and communications technology training places over the next four years and an additional 5,000 JobBridge placements for those under 25. We are also proposing radical reform of education, welfare and employment services. In this spirit, we are proposing an immediate pilot scheme introducing education and training vouchers. This would put the young people in question back in control of their own plans and help stem the flow of emigration.
“Ours is an affordable and realistic plan, with a wide range of measures including those I’ve mentioned here. I would ask that these ideas be given urgent consideration by Fine Gael and Labour.”
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