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Young FG calls for Croke Park Agreement to be scrapped

Young Fine Gael President, Eric Keane, has called on the Government to rescind the Croke Park Agreement. Eric_Keane1

Mr Keane said “Under section 28 of the agreement the Government has the right to scrap the deal if the country’s fiscal position deteriorates. “This condition has clearly been met. The Government has brought our country to financial ruin and we are on the brink of one of the largest bailouts in modern history. The Government wants to cut the minimum wage and tax the poorest in our society yet they intend on implementing this agreement. The arrival of the IMF and EU must call an end to the agreement.

“Our country simply cannot afford the terms of the agreement. Moving civil servants from one department to another, which is what the agreement envisages, will not solve either our country’s problems or how the public service is paid for and what it delivers.

“The simple fact is that higher public servants are paid too much and there is no way of rectifying this problem under the Croke Park Agreement."

Eight Point Plan to Save Jobs

FG propose Jobs Plan in the Dáil

Fine Gael will use its private members time this week to put forward its eight point plan to save jobs and to create tens of thousands of placements for the young unemployed, according to Spokesperson for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar. The motion will be debated in the Dáil on Tuesday culminating in a vote on Wednesday night

“Fine Gael is horrified by the Governments ‘hands-off’ approach to job retention and job creation. Ireland now has the second highest unemployment rate in the Eurozone and over 85,000 people under the age of 25 are now drawing the dole. The sole focus of Government policy has been on the budget and the banks to the detriment of jobs and competitiveness. This needs to change.

YFG Highlights Youth Emigration

McCarthy: Fine Gael tackle youth unemployment head on

Speaking after the FG policy launch of Hope for A Lost Generation, YFG Policy Officer Peter Kiernan McCarthy stated that "Unemployment figures show that we now have 422,00 people signing on the live register, with a shocking 87,100 (October 2009) of them being young people under the age of 25, with one in three young males now unemployed.

"It is clear from these figures that young people are the main victims of the economic catastrophe that has occurred in this country as a result of Fianna Fail’s failed economic policies. They seem perfectly happy that young people are the worst hit by the economic catastrophe the country finds itself in and to leave them to pick up the cost of trebling the public debt.

"This country previously had to experience the horror of mass emigration, when an entire young vibrant generation had to leave their country behind." This ambitious policy sets out clear achievable targets to reduce the number of under 25’s on the dole queues by one-third.

Generation facing an Abyss, as Cowen stands idly by

Youth Unemployment almost DOUBLES under FF in just 1 year

Young Fine Gael (YFG) have today warned that mass emigration could again become a reality for our young people, in light of the recent CSO Live Register figures for December, released last week.

YFG President Barry Walsh has said: "The latest CSO figures reveal that the number of young people under the age of 25 on the Dole has almost doubled in the space of a year, increasing from 33,000 to 62,000 during 2008 – a rise of 87%. These figures are terrifying. However, the Government does not even seem to know that there is a problem.

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Budget offers no credible job or stimulus package Shape Government Policy! Summer School - Call for Motions YFG Campaign for Headshop Regulation at YEPP Congress FG launches jobs plan for under 25s	Summer School - Call for Motions Budget offers no credible job or stimulus package YFG Campaign for Headshop Regulation at YEPP Congress FG launches jobs plan for under 25s Register to Vote!	Motions for Discussion at YFG National Conference 2012 Nominations for YFG National Executive National Conference thanks Bookings 2012 Dublin Day Monaghan Young Fine Gael	Register to Vote! Thanks to the 80 YFG members who traveled to Donegal! Donegal Monster Canvass Weekend Lavelle campaigns for employment Clare YFG \| Leaving Cert Stress	Young FG calls for Croke Park Agreement to be scrapped Live Register Figures Show Govt. Failure Hayes backs UCCYFG Fee Protest UCCYFG protest Conferring Fee Student Outrage at Conferring Levy	Conference Itinerary YOUNG FINE GAEL NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2012 Greek Referendum Proposal Must Be Reversed Minister Creighton in Cyprus as part of Ireland’s preparations for Presidency of the European Union Greek Referendum Proposal Must be Reversed
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