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TENS OF THOUSANDS more people may be in jobs now than at the peak of the recession but the government has failed to stop talented young Irish people abandoning the country.
Fianna Fáil jobs spokesman Dara Calleary has accused the government of failing to stem the tide of emigration – particularly among those under 35 - despite the administration claiming success with its job-creation plans.
“If things are so successful, why are people still leaving the country and why is the talent still leaving?,” he said.
He made the comments at an Oireachtas Jobs Committee meeting today after Jobs Minister Richard Bruton claimed “substantial progress” had been made on goals set under the 2012 “action plan for jobs”.
Bruton earlier said the government had set a target of getting 100,000 people back at work by 2016 and the the latest figures showed about 90,000 people had returned to work with the gains coming in full-time jobs.
He also said there had also been a 30% drop in the level of net migration – from 34,000 people leaving the country in 2013 to 21,000 last year.
Emigration is going in the right direction … and I believe it has come down since then as well,” he said.
Those figures were based on the most-recent figures from the CSO which cover the year ending in April 2014.
Irish still emigrating
However an analysis of the same data shows the emigration level among Irish people has barely changed over the same period after peaking in 2013.
Last year the net migration figure was still in negative territory with more than 30,000 more Irish nationals emigrating than those who were moving back. The total was last in positive figures in 2009, when 3,800 more locals returned than left the country.
Bruton said the “only response” to emigration was job creation and the government was on track for its goal of full employment by 2018, which in effect means a jobless rate of about 5%.
The latest live register figures showed the unemployment rate stood at 10.1% in February.
Bruton said there was “no doubt” emigration had hit the under-35 age bracket the hardest, but many of the jobs now being created were well paid and in highly-skilled positions.
Essentially there is a war for talent in every country in the world. It will take time to get emigration down, but a drop of 30% in emigration over the last 12 months … is a good step.”
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so the Irish people that were trafficked weren’t trafficked…gotcha , I was beginning to wonder had that well known Leitrim to Donegal route kicked off again….
Keep allowing them in and soon enough it will be your daughters and granddaughters that Thell be grooming for sex. Not just yet, it’ll take more of them to live here before they get the courage, but it’s on its way, keep watching.
The people involved in this should be locked up for life ie 30 years plus
@Fjordie, the people involved in this will be out as soon as possible, this allows the legal industry to make more money off them the next time their caught, when again, they will be promptly released, and the legal industry continues to rake in the money, look at what happening now, people with up to 100 prior convictions being given suspended sentences, why, so the legal industry can make money from having their product in circulation.
Suspended sentences all round
change the record
Must have heard about the gravy train the you can go on after exploitation. #inbeforetheracists.
And the prize for most obnoxious troll goes to…
not to mention incoherent
What is conspicuously missing from this story is a very important question;
“How many of these children were in State “Care” when they were trafficked?”
We’ve had this conversation before, when it emerged that 500 went “Missing” from “Care”, but when the truth emerged it was found that the entire thing had been covered up by Gardai, the HSE and the government. The truth was that that we only found out because Wikileaks released diplomatic documents from the American Embassy in Dublin. While the government said they were “Missing”, the US State Dept. showed that most had been accounted for and were trafficked. Many of the children were found in brothels or enforced slavery.
You’ll have to pardon me for using quotation marks on the word “Care”. I wonder will Wikileaks have to step in again to find out how many of these children were in State “Care”?
So true.
Ireland is not known as the Hub of child trafficking for nothing.
Yes children in care are prostituted out- but the state never prosecutes itself.
No one in power wants to know and use excuses like – secret court rules, blahhhhhh,blahhhhh
The Immigrant Council yet again calling for ”the criminalisation of the purchase of sex”, completely ignoring the fact that coercive trafficking and commercial sex work are entirely different things. Amnesty, UNAIDS, The World Health Org and as of today the UK Home Office Select Committee all advocate decriminalisation but apparently the ‘experts’ of TORL, ICI & Ruhama know better.
Thanks lily ☺
Not a bother. Negative attention is still attention right? Lap it up pet.
your talking to me aren’t you? you realize you don’t have to? lol
@Lily, their beliefs and culture are not compatible. What would you say to anyone of the women who were abused/raped in Europe, or to the countless children, what you say to the mother of the young boy who was raped in a public swimming pool in Europe only to be told that the reason was the immigrant had a “sexual emergency”. And yes, our own countries have our own issues, but it’s committed by perverts, whereas it’s the accepted culture where these people come from.
Conri, Nowhere did I make any comment to suggest I condone violence or assault. You have done a marvellous job of reading subtext where there was none.
@Lily, As you have, no where did I say you did condone violence , you also have done a marvellous job of reading subtext where there was none, we’ve so much in common you and I. Actually I was just stating (as a comment in response to yours) that this is an incompatible culture and will lead us down a very dark path if something is not done to stem the flow, it’s been described as an invasion, I agree with this. Can you please respond to the following question: do you want to see some of our towns and cities end up like some of Britain’s, unrecognisable to English people, unsafe for them to venture into ?
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