THE GOVERNMENT HAS announced details of its much-heralded Action Plan on Jobs, which aims to get 100,000 more people working over the next four years.
Small businesses are key to the scheme, with measures designed to increase investment and improve access to mentoring services for startup companies.
The programme details 270 separate ‘actions’ to boost investment and help new business. Each has a deadline and progress will be monitored on a quarterly basis by a civil service committee.
But don’t worry – we’ve picked out the key details of the Action Plan for you. (You can also read the full document here.) Here’s how the Government is planning to create 100,000 jobs by 2016:
Details of how, when and by whom each of these aims will be achieved are set out in the table of 270 actions published alongside the overall plan. You can read the full list here.
Launching the plan, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the country had already made “real progress” in dealing with its economic situation and “drawn a line under the banking crisis”.
He said he would personally oversee the implementation of the jobs plan, adding:
The Taoiseach’s department will be working closely with other Departments to make absolutely sure the necessary change is made, results are achieved, jobs grown. There will be constant monitoring of progress with quarterly reports.
Jobs minister Richard Bruton said there was no “big bang” solution to the unemployment rate, which is currently more than 14 per cent. He said instead the plan aims to “rebuild the economy brick by brick, reform by reform, to get back to sustainable enterprise-led growth.”
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