If we don’t grow jobs, tax reductions and public service investment won’t happen. No more boom and bust, no more reckless waste of taxpayers’ money, no more sense of a crisis. Fine Gael’s Long Term Economic Plan has three steps. 1. More and Better Jobs – 200,000 extra jobs by 2020 supported by a €4 billion […]
The new Strategy is a key pillar in the Government’s plan to keep the recovery going and build sustainable economic growth. The Strategy identifies Ireland’s current skills profile, provides a strategic vision and specific objectives for Ireland’s future skills requirements, and sets out a road map for how the vision and objectives can be achieved. The […]
My motion before this year’s Ard Fheis asked: That this Árd Fheis recognises the importance of competitiveness to the Irish economy and calls on Fine Gael to outline how Ireland will achieve its goal of ranking in the top three of the most competitive small countries in the world. ‘From 2000 onwards Ireland’s economy […]
Promising start to 2014 with another drop in Live Register figures – Fiona McLoughlin Healy. Local Elections candidate Fiona McLoughlin Healy has said the latest Live Register figures are a great start to the New Year for the jobs market. The figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that the number of people […]