Press Release

Sinn Féin Councillor Jonathan O'Brien today criticised the failure to act on jobs by the current Fianna Fáil/Green Government.

Cllr O'Brien stated: "Thousands of people have joined the live Register in the last year. There are 49,893 people signing on the register here in Cork alone, a 42% increase in just 12 months. Last October the government told us to 'Vote Yes for Jobs' in the Lisbon referendum. This amounted to no more than another empty promise from a government that actually has no policies whatsoever to tackle the jobs crisis. It has no strategy to create or maintain jobs. It seems happy to stand idly by as our young once more emigrate to find work."

"In the last year we have seen unemployment soar to almost 50,000 here in Cork. Many of these jobless are under 25 years of age and were it not for the fact that many young people have emigrated this figure would be much higher. The government`s only response has been to cut the payment rates of unemployment benefit."



"What is needed is a real government strategy to create and retain jobs, not the relentless focus on bailing out the banks and balancing the books we have got."

“Our Ireland - and this city- deserves priority over the bankers, developers and other friends of Fianna Fail." Críoch