Gilmore: Government targeting full employment
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has today defended the Government's latest plan to get people off the dole.
A revised 'Pathways to Work' programme will be set out this afternoon, which aims to get 75,000 long-term unemployed into jobs by the end of 2015.
Fianna Fáil has criticised the plan, saying the Government is doing nothing to deliver the jobs needed.
Minister Gilmore says the Government is aiming to help provide everyone with a job.
"As a country, I believe that we need to set ourselves a new target, and I believe that that target has to be the target of full employment," he said.
"That's what we need to do - to get employment for people who have lost jobs during the recession, young people who are coming out of schools and colleges and who can't get work, and indeed, employment for people who have had to emigrate and who like to have the opportunity of a return."
