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NEW EUROSTAT FIGURES reveal that Ireland has reduced the number of early school leavers and performed well in reaching European 2020 targets.
In the 18-24 population, 9.7 per cent left education or training early in 2011. This is 1.7 percent behind the Europe target of 8 per cent.
Targets
Ireland is also only slightly behind the European target for 30-34 age group to hold a third level degree. Of that age group, 51.5 per cent had a third level qualification, while the European 2020 target is 60 per cent.
In terms of Ireland’s employment rate, the Eurostat figures show that 63.7 per cent of the working age population was in employment, behind the Europe 2020 target of 75 per cent. Nevertheless, the country was still closer to its employment commitments for 2020 than the EU average.
Reseach and Development spending reached 1.72 per cent in 2012, which the Eurostat survey says moves Ireland closer to the national target of 2 per cent sending of GDP.
While Ireland was praised for those improvements, the figures shows that Ireland is falling behind in some areas.
Ireland lagged behind the EU average in the areas of climate change and energy, with the share of renewable energies at 6.7 per cent of energy consumption, a 9.3 percentage point distance from the Europe 2020 target of 16 per cent
In 2011, Ireland was also the country furthest from its national poverty reduction target, implying that an additional 455,000 people need to be lifted out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion by 2016.
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Who cares?
@FlipBip: I care, I don’t piss down on Irish talent like a lot of the whingers in here. Also Iv a fair few family members involved in the production industry creating some fantastic Irish film and media, so anything which highlights Irish talent, particularly an academy award is to our own benefit.
@FlipBip: Kneecap going to the Oscars would be pretty funny, if only to watch the meltdown in the Daily Mail, TUV and with all of the Journal reactionaries!
I wish them all the best but hardly something that occupies my head at all, not begrudgery, just not important.
That’s the first thought that came into my head this morning,not.
Nothing, Nul Points, Zero, again Nul Points as per Fr Ted..
Paul Mescal is definitely getting the Best Actor Oscar, nobody acted as good as him
@Liam Boyne: If there was an Oscar category for Comedy you’d win it.
Barry keoghan represents Ireland at the Oscars in the same way Conor mcgregor represents Ireland in the UFC and the Courts
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