SF Proposals to Tackle Youth Unemployment

[turdsl]

Commies love their numbers. 5 year plans, production quotas etc etc. All precisely planned.

That really would be great for a change, precise planning would be something this country needs,

[Tombo]

That really would be great for a change, precise planning would be something this country needs,

I would contend it needs the government to scale down and back away.

It really has never been tried in Ireland before.

[turdsl]

I would contend it needs the government to scale down and back away.

It really has never been tried in Ireland before.

We just know that this government is not cable of doing anything costructive,They have distroyed our economy and brought great shame on us over the Willie O Dea affair,They have to go,

[jimmyfour]

Sounds like typical communist tripe from SF.

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• A youth jobs fund to create 20,000 new jobs at €500
million.

So a fund to create jobs, with each job created costing €25k? Does this mean diverting 25k per job to a few hundred SF-friendly businesses eh?

• 2,000 places on a ‘One More Language Scheme’ to give
the young unemployed a chance to learn an extra foreign
language at €20 million.

To get to B1 level (minimum usually required in unskilled non-college jobs) in a language, costs around €1400. Why will it cost €10000 for these? That is a monstrous sum to spend learning a language. It's 2k/level in germany to do 1-2 month courses. €4k will see you with a certificate in german after 2 months.

• 5,000 free ECDL advanced places at €25 million.

These are the ECDL courses that cost €5k a go, right? More subvention for a bunch of IT start ups in North?

.......• A ‘National Development Scheme’ to employ people directly
on public works projects, employing 2,000 workers at
approximately €100 million.

So you want to pay road construction workers €50k a year while paying doctors with 6 years of education €35k? You have your priorities all wrong. Construction is OVER. SF are obvsiously stuck with a large cohort of voters from this area and need to be seen to be doing something for them.

This document is ridiculous. I'd rather stab myself in the eye with a fork than have so much money diverted into more unaccountable FAS style quangos.

[Catalpa]

Sinn Féin's Senator Pearse Doherty today launched the party's proposals to help get the
86,000 under 25's off the dole and stem the tide of emigration.

Doherty launches comprehensive set of proposals to tackle youth unemployment | Sinn Féin

Some of the proposals included in the 9 page document are:

• A youth jobs fund to create 20,000 new jobs at €500
million.

• 2,000 places on a ‘One More Language Scheme’ to give
the young unemployed a chance to learn an extra foreign
language at €20 million.

• 5,000 free ECDL advanced places at €25 million.

• 10,000 new CE places at €168 million.

• 1,000 places on conversion courses at third level to help
graduates convert their skills to potential growth sectors, at
€15 million.

• 8 measures to treble the number of under 25s who are
self-employed including a national entrepreneurship
programme, access to credit and greater support for highpotential
start-ups.

• A publicly-owned green tech firm for Ireland and a major
drive to attract FDI in renewable energy at €100 million.
• Making Ireland a digital media leader through support for
skills, infrastructure and entrepreneurship.

• A ‘National Development Scheme’ to employ people directly
on public works projects, employing 2,000 workers at
approximately €100 million.

• Lifting of the suspension on the early farm retirement
scheme to make farming an option for younger people.


I will put up a link to the actual document as soon as it comes online.

It was you dopes that cheerleaded on Mass Immigration for years - now there are not enough jobs to go around and they want to stem the emigration of young Irish people?

Bunch o wallys!

[MacCoise2]

Some decent real ideas there, typical responses here.

Imagine learning another language!! Mad, mad Shinners

[Pat Mc Larnon]

Yeah, educating young people who didn't see the benefit first time round, make it a criminal offence.

A Mac Donalds or KFC at every crossroads is the answer, plus more call centres. Well, until under bid by India.

But then spending hundreds of millions of Euros needed to educate these young people is wrong. You would think SF would know that this money is needed to bail out the builders and bankers. You know, by the parties who had all the answers on the economy.

[Pat Mc Larnon]

It was you dopes that cheerleaded on Mass Immigration for years - now there are not enough jobs to go around and they want to stem the emigration of young Irish people?

Bunch o wallys!

But hey, during the halcyon years there weren't enough people to slop the sh*t while the locals moved on. But that's just a fact that can be readily ignored.

[charley]

Ah yes - harness the renowned dynamism, legendary efficiency and innovation of our state sector to compete for the growing pie with the rest of the world.


Figures seem all over the shop - €500m for 20,000 jobs? How long are these jobs supposed to last for? A year? then what? At less than 25k per head?

Don't understand how this tallies with the language one - a fund of €10k per head to learn a language? You'd get a lot of language for 10k...

As for the ECDL - 25 million to be spent teach 5000 people how to use Microsoft Office - I think I'd prefer to see it 'invested' in Anglo.

most community centres already run ECDL courses they are €80 or free if unemployed. same for languages well irish anyway

[charley]

But hey, during the halcyon years there weren't enough people to slop the sh*t while the locals moved on. But that's just a fact that can be readily ignored.

if the price had been right there would have been plenty to 'slop the sh1te'