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THE DEPARTMENT OF Social Protection website advertises nearly 1,000 jobs outside of Ireland on its website.
The Department, which has taken over some of the functions of FÁS, the soon-to-be dissolved state employment and training agency, is currently advertising a total of 984 positions, from 130 employers, on the JobsIreland website.
But it has insisted that it does not match vacancies for jobs outside of the EU to people looking for work here in Ireland.
“Advertising vacancies which are based outside of the EU ensures that jobseekers in Ireland are being provided the widest choice of job vacancies and locations available with a view to providing the jobseeker with possible paid employment,” a spokesperson for the Department of Social Protection said.
The government has previously been criticised for actively encouraging emigration after Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty raised the case of an unemployed man in his 60s being offered work as a bus driver in Malta for €250 per week.
One of the vacancies abroad that is currently being advertised is a full-time job working on an excavation machine for an Irish company based in Iraq.
The €35,000-a-year job was advertised on the website by the recruitment agency Connect which admitted it was an unusual position.
It is one of hundreds of jobs abroad that are advertised by the government website with 348 vacancies in Canada, 187 in the UK and 181 in New Zealand currently posted. A job in Kenya and another in Japan are also advertised on the site.
Such jobs may be of interest “to non-Irish nationals who are interested in returning to work in their country of origin”, the Department said.
Ireland’s high unemployment was raised at Leaders’ Questions questions yesterday where the independent TD Mattie McGrath accused the government of not doing enough to incentivise Irish employers to hire.
He said that young people across Ireland have lost the privilege of choice with almost all families impacted by emigration.
Jobs Minister Richard Bruton said a scheme to pay employers a subsidy of €72 a week if they take on a person who has been unemployed for a year will be announced shortly.
He also insisted that unemployment has been falling and that the private sector has been adding 2,000 jobs a month here in Ireland.
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If men were having the babies this would never happen. Disgraceful treatment of women in such a dangerous medical condition.
@2thFairy: Ah FFS, what a ridiculous thing to say. The article is about men not being allowed into the labour ward for enough time so the woman stayed in the car…with her partner…for support. Snide comments about men is not the solution here.
Why are we not demonstrating about the absolute state of our health system?
Stephen Donnelly doing his best ? Who’s running the country the government or the maternity hospitals. Sanction the hospitals if they don’t comply remove funding.
@Nan: She chose to stay in the car park? Whats the fuss?
@Nan: Well, we have a Minister for Health, then we have a Junior Minister for Health, then there is a Director General of the HSE, then a CEO of the HSE, then CEOs of the various hospital groups. Then there be deputies of the top positions. Might have missed a few. All these people paid a yearly EuroMillions lotto win and still the HSE is a joke shop.
If he didn’t pick up the phone and call the hospital today and get an answer to why this happened and if the hospital is not in compliance with the guidelines and he didn’t sack the person responsible before he hung up the phone, then he’s not fit to be in charge of the health service of this country.
@BK: Cause that how the world works
An absolute disgrace. Shame on this country. Women’s health is and has always been well down the list of priorities.
Always excuses. Nothing meaningful really happens.
My son and his wife had a baby boy on 4th October in Holles Street hospital and he was allowed in for the labour, birth and each and every day whilst Mum and baby were in patients. They came home on 9th and were so happy that they could stay with their baby till he was allowed out.. They found the hospital staff very accommodating and helpful…
The government caused it. Why can’t they fix it!
The Coombe, where she took her baby inside to a breakfast of cold toast and tea. The entire hospital needs to be shut down.
From what I gather the article says the lady was in the end stages of labour.. therefore she would’ve been admitted to the labour ward and her partner could’ve accompanied her as per the hospital’s guidelines??
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