80,000 people unemployed longer than 3 years, the lifetime of Jobs Action Plan series  Fianna Fáil Jobs Spokesperson Dara Calleary has described the government’s latest Action Plan on Jobs as a PR exercise that ignores long-term unemployed, ignores Ireland’s competitiveness challenge and offers lip service to the regions. Deputy Calleary commented: “Once again we are being treated to a spinfest around job creation, a spinfest that frustrates job seekers and that ignores fundamental problems within our country. “The first Jobs Action Plan was published in 2012, the recent CSO figures suggest that there are over 80,000 people who have been on the Live Register since then and are still on … Continue reading Action Plan on Jobs ignores long-term unemployed, competitiveness challenge & offers lip service to regions