Click here to view the video clip of my questions to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Innovation Batt O’Keeffe TD about the Government’s lack of action on Graduate Unemployment. I took the opportunity to outline to the Minister to crisis in Graduate Unemployment which has been estimated by the Union of Student’s in Ireland [...]

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A fatal flaw in one of the Government’s key job-creation initiatives means it has been a total flop, reaching just 6% of its 2010 job-creation target, Fine Gael Innovation & Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has warned. The Government’s Employer Job (PRSI) Incentive Scheme was launched with great fanfare during the last Budget. Batt O’Keeffe [...]

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Fine Gael Innovation & Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has expressed her disappointment at the announcement of 55 job losses at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Cork together with changes to shift patterns which will result in 66 fewer jobs. The Cork TD criticised the Government for the lack of any credible job creation policy and its [...]

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Outdated and near useless bankruptcy laws are costing jobs in the economy while holding back entrepreneurship, Fine Gael Innovation and Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has warned. Speaking during Fine Gael’s Private Members’ Motion on jobs in the Dáil on Thursday, Deputy Clune said: ‘Today’s revelations about the huge cost of the banking bail out [...]

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Fine Gael Innovation Spokeswoman Deirdre Clune TD has said she is ‘stunned’ that the Taoiseach has only now realised that Ireland is in the grip of its worst ever unemployment crisis. Speaking before the Taoiseach was due to meet a range of State agencies, all of which report regularly to the Government anyway, Deputy Clune [...]

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160 JOBS are to be lost at the pharmaceutical company Shearing-Plough pharmaceutical company at it’s Cork plant over the next three years. The company have said they are seeking voluntary redundancies. Cork Fine Gael TD Deputy Deirdre Clune has expressed her disappointment at the news saying: “what we need now is clear defined policies that will will lead to job prospects.”

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We need a General Election Audio Clip (to listen click here) Full Interview with Deputy Clune regarding Fine Gael’s future objectives (to listen click here) THE Government don’t have the competency to deal with the enormity of the problem they are facing and we need a short, sharp election that will give certainty to the [...]

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Fine Gael Frontbench Spokesperson on Innovation and Research, Deirdre Clune TD, has called for a complete overhaul of Ireland’s bankruptcy laws to promote greater entrepreneurial activity, saying the Government’s latest intervention in the area is underwhelming. Ireland needs to develop an entirely new system of bankruptcy laws more in line with our European neighbours if [...]

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Since my appointment as Fine Gael spokesperson on Innovation and Research, and for a long time before that, I have been continuously calling on the government to put their energies into innovative ways to create jobs. They continue to ignore these calls and our unemployment rate continues to increase.

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Irish bankruptcy laws are out of date and if they are not changed in the near future they will only serve to hinder Ireland’s chances of economic recovery.

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