WHAT THE IRISH TIMES WON’T TELL YOU These youths likely don’t qualify for the jobs plus scheme. They would have to be on jobseekers for 24 months plus (for some Irish it’s 36 months). The same rule does not apply to asylum seekers and refugees. Employers are getting between 7 and 10 grand over a 2 year period for taking on and retaining foreign staff. Some Irish do qualify earlier for jobs plus but only travellers and people on one parent payments. The government’s is funding the replacement of Irish people in the workforce in my view and we see this strategy replicated in the healthcare industry. Recruitment companies are paid up to 15 grand per non national healthcare worker they recruit from abroad. To me, this gives an incentive not to do proper background checks. There appears to be a strong push to get our young people to engage in a mass exodus from Ireland. Meanwhile, the government goes on about the healthcare system being propped up by foreign staff (we wouldn’t need that if we were not importing hundreds of thousands of people) when really we have lots of doctors and nurses being trained here with tax payer money and then being pushed out because the government isn’t employing them or paying enough for them to live on. Also, this is somewhat about lowering everyone’s wages (importing cheap labour). Futhermore importing foreign workers creates a brain drain in other countries and harms those nations. India has a healthcare worker deficit of 3 million. Yes, they’re short healthcare workers to the tune of 3 million. That’s almost half of the population of the ROI.

Posted by Fred Bassett