# jobs-initiative - Saturday 2 March, 2013
The announcement that 400 of new Irish Water jobs are to be set aside for graduates, the unemployed and small businesses is welcome – but we should be doing this for all our large scale projects by including social inclusion clauses, writes John Lyons.
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# jobs-initiative - Thursday 3 May, 2012
The Social Protection Minister claimed that the jobs initiative had boosted tourism numbers. Yesterday, the CSO said that there were fewer visits to Ireland in the first quarter of 2012.
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# jobs-initiative - Monday 23 January, 2012
Hireland hopes to encourage the creation of 5,000 new positions across Ireland in the first six months of 2012.
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# jobs-initiative - Wednesday 5 October, 2011
Michael McGrath says the government’s pension levy isn’t being used on job creation – but the government disagrees.
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# jobs-initiative - Tuesday 9 August, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Documents released to Fianna Fáil show Labour’s concerns that the levy on private pensions could force some schemes to wind up.
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# jobs-initiative - Monday 18 July, 2011
The Government’s €473million programme gives out money to companies whether they create jobs or not. If we weren’t broke before we will be soon, writes economist Michael Taft.
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A large number on the list of Deloitte’s ‘Best Managed Companies’ say they will continue to recruit this year, while more than 90 per cent think NAMA isn’t doing its job.
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# jobs-initiative - Sunday 17 July, 2011
The government is hoping to create 5,000 internships from the scheme which was launched two weeks ago and insists it is happy with the progress so far.
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# jobs-initiative - Friday 1 July, 2011
In today’s 9 at 9: Some good news as VAT is lowered; a twist in the Strauss-Kahn case; new developments in the Race for the Áras; and who is a “snotty Miss Fancy Pants”?
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# jobs-initiative - Tuesday 21 June, 2011
Micheál Martin accuses Enda Kenny of ‘covering up’ government policy on the pension levy – a claim labelled “balderdash”.
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# jobs-initiative - Thursday 16 June, 2011
The Taoiseach has promised that there will be no rise in income tax in the next budget. Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore have been highlighting their achievements so far, but say there’s a lot left to do.
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# jobs-initiative - Saturday 11 June, 2011
The Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar claims that the funding committed from his department to the government’s jobs initiative has the potential to create around 1,000 jobs in Ireland.
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# jobs-initiative - Wednesday 1 June, 2011
The finance minister confirms the Pensions Board was not formally consulted over the move to fund the jobs initiative.
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# jobs-initiative - Tuesday 17 May, 2011
The employers’ group says pension and benefit schemes are in serious danger and is urging the government to reconsider the pension levy. The levy forms part of the government jobs initiative.
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55 per cent of respondents are positive about the jobs initiative itself, while 85 per cent can handle prospective bad news.
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# jobs-initiative - Thursday 12 May, 2011
Michael Noonan says the pensions levy is ‘modest’ and temporary – but should those with private pensions have to foot the bill?
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# jobs-initiative - Wednesday 11 May, 2011
Justice minister Alan Shatter announces the 14 countries to which the visa waiver will apply from July 1.
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Tourism Ireland will lead a delegation on a five-day ‘sales blitz’ as the government confirms a temporary visa waiver scheme.
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The Finance Minister has said the government’s introduction of a levy on private pension funds will help to restart the economy – and accused the pensions industry of acting in a “quasi-hysterical” manner.
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# jobs-initiative - Tuesday 10 May, 2011
Our nightly wrap-up of what’s been going on… including some hints on who to watch in tonight’s Eurovision semi-final.
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Michael Noonan’s jobs initiative will see a levy of 0.6 per cent on private pensions, which will fund VAT and PRSI cuts.
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# jobs-initiative - Monday 9 May, 2011
The projects for refurbishment and renovation of national and secondary schools will be funded by the department of education and the exchequer. The jobs initiative will be announced in full tomorrow.
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# jobs-initiative - Friday 6 May, 2011
The Irish Association of Pension Funds says a new levy on private pensions would be tantamount to a ‘stealth tax’.
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# jobs-initiative - Thursday 5 May, 2011
The new scheme will be part of the government’s jobs initiative which is due to be announced next week. The Taoiseach is currently on a two-day visit to New York.
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# jobs-initiative - Saturday 30 April, 2011
Nine things you need to know by 9am: Bad news for growth and jobs in Ireland; The royal wedding hangover; a television appearance by Colonel Gaddafi; the one year anniversary of Gerry Ryan’s death; and a race row hits French football.
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# jobs-initiative - Sunday 24 April, 2011
Reports in today’s Sunday papers give more details about next month’s planned jobs initiative but there are doubts about how many jobs it will create.
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