Ógra responds to Unemployment crisis

Ógra Shinn Féin has criticised the government repsonse to the unemployment crisis affecting young people.With the live register figures released for May showing yet another increase in the unemployed, they have claimed that the suggestion that the crisis was coming under control was premature.
The national unemployed figure now stands at 439,100. There are 19,810 unemployed in Cork City alone, with 3,827 of these under 25.
Ógra erected a banner at the constituency office of Micheal Martin TD, to highlight the failure of the government parties to tackle the crisis.

An Ógra spokesperson had this to say - 'The government remains unconcerned with the jobs crisis, and their failure to tackle the ever increasing amoung of young people either signing on or emigrating is scandalous. Indeed, many contributions at Saturday's conference suggested to us that, far from coming to grips with our economic difficulties, their failure to create employment, is in fact exacerbating the economic crisis, and that we are unlikely to see a real recovery for quite some time to come.'


He added 'Ógra will be taking this campaign to the streets over the coming time, highlighting the abject failure of the Government to tackle the jobs crisis, and indeed their complete lack of interest in the welfare of young people, and we encourage all young people to get active and to fightback against this government'.