Taoiseach Micheál Martin; Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly.
The Irish Government has finally submitted its National Recovery and Resilience Plan to the EU and has also published the Economic Recovery Plan designed to plot the route to recovery from COVID-19 and to manage Brexit as well.
What is striking about the 58-page recovery plan document is that despite virtually every sector of Irish society being referred to, farming and the agri-food sector gets a short paragraph in which it is diverted to the agri-food 2030 strategy. As recently as 2010, when the Irish economy was in meltdown, the agri-food sector was identified as the foundation on which economic recovery would be built.
Government measures announced in the new Economic Recovery Plan and vaccines will help Laois employers and households come through the pandemic, according to th.
The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar T.D. is writing to every registered business in Ireland to thank them for the.
Employment And Labour Minister concerned by increase in youth unemployment which overshadows gains in some industries While some industries have shown small.
Employment and labour minister concerned over increase of unemployment
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WHILE some industries have shown small employment gains – such as the finance (215 000), community (16 000), utilities (16 000), mining (12 000) and manufacturing (7 000 – the overall picture is still a cause for concern with a large decrease in employment between quarter 4 of 2020 and quarter 1 of 2021 among those industries that were classified non-essentials such construction and trade industries, with 87 000 and 84 000 jobs loss respectively.
The private households also shown employment decrease of 70 000 over the same period.
The Department of Employment and Labour is, however, confident that the employment trajectory will relatively surpass the current Covid-19 challenge. This is based on number of factors, among others, the Covid-19 vaccines programme and the Presidential Employment Stimulus which aims to cleate new job opportunities.