SF Proposals to Tackle Youth Unemployment

[Kerrygold]

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.

[Twin Towers]

Spend gazillions

[PrinceMax]

The language thing is a good idea and wouldn't cost very much. I would be very happy if I got a place on something like this. When the upturn comes, it will greatly improve my chances of finding work abroad.

[Kerrygold]

Spend gazillions

What?

[Gimpanzee]

• A publicly-owned green tech firm for Ireland and a major
drive to attract FDI in renewable energy at €100 million.

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.

[PrinceMax]

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...

Actually yes, that is a bit odd.
You could send someone to Berlin for a year to take German lessons every day, pay for accommodation and living expenses and have change from 10,000.
I hope the govt. take this suggestion on board. I'd love to go to Berlin for the year to do this.

[Aindriu]

So let me get this right. They are going to spend millions of Euros we don't have to educate young people who should have worked harder at school in the first place

[PrinceMax]

So let me get this right. They are going to spend millions of Euros we don't have to educate young people who should have worked harder at school in the first place

Whether or not they worked hard at school or not is irrelevant. If employers locating here want a highly educated workforce, people need be trained. Education is certainly the way out of the crisis. We can't rely on the govt. or Irish people to create jobs, so we need to attract foreign investment. As we saw from Google's comments regarding grade inflation - education is important to them.

[Aindriu]

Whether or not they worked hard at school or not is irrelevant. If employers locating here want a highly educated workforce, people need be trained. Education is certainly the way out of the crisis. We can't rely on the govt. or Irish people to create jobs, so we need to attract foreign investment. As we saw from Google's comments regarding grade inflation - education is important to them.

Of course it is relevent! How many young lads here couldn't give a flying feck about their leaving & junior certs because they all thought they had a job for life 'on the buildings'?

[PrinceMax]

Of course it is relevent! How many young lads here couldn't give a flying feck about their leaving & junior certs because they all thought they had a job for life 'on the buildings'?

True, but, if people want to be reeducated and employers need them, and it would be worth the investment, then why does it matter about what they did before?

And, your sort of implying that building isn't a skilled profession. If you wanted to go into construction, why is the leaving cert so important?