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THE NUMBERS on the Live Register fell by 2,200 last month – a minor drop that did not lower Ireland’s unemployment rate.
Seasonally adjusted figures from the Central Statistics Office show 426,100 people signing on last month.
That number is down by 10,400 from twelve months earlier.
On average, four out of nine people signing on have been on the Live Register for twelve months or more.
However, the proportion of male long-term claimants has fallen over the last year – with 1,065 males dropping out of the ‘long term’ category, while 4,496 females entered it.
When broken down by age, well over half of the numbers who have left the register over the last twelve months were aged under 25; 6,401 young people left the register either because they found work, entered into education or training, or left the country.
Under-25s now account for 15.7 per cent of all people signing on. Non-Irish citizens account for 17.8 per cent, with nationals from the more recent EU accession states making up just under 10 per cent, ahead of UK citizens at 3.89 per cent.
The register includes both people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (306,361) and Jobseeker’s Benefit (84,433), as well as people with only casual part-time work for up to three days a week (89,798) and others.
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Dublin airport still doing the business .
We’d be like Greece and Spain with riots on the streets daily if English weren’t not our first language. No green shoots just emigration
Yea, it’s all emigration !! The policies of this government to reduce the dole queues is to get the unemployed to move abroad
Come on journal. A few phone calls to Aussie and Canadian immigration will give u the numbers who emigrated. Lets see those figures alongside these ones please.
Here we have it from Australia, straight from the horse’s mouth (a.k.a. Department of Immigration and Citizenship):
http://www.immi.gov.au/media/statistics/statistical-info/oad/totalmovs/totmova.htm
In the Australian financial year 2011 to 2012 (which is 01.07.2011 to 30.06.2012), 135,931 Irish nationals arrived in Australia, for all reasons, including work, residency and tourism.
Of course, we must remember that anyone who enters Australia on a Working Holiday Visa (as most young Irish people currently do) is classed as a tourist. So, the 77,006 Irish tourists who arrived in that year would most definitely not fall into the traditional definition of the word ‘tourist’.
At the same time, it must be remembered that these figures include re-entries into Australia. So for example someone who has been living in Perth for three years pops over to Bali on their holidays or comes to Ireland for a fortnight is counted in these statistics once again on return to Australia. They’re not perfect figures to be looking at, but they’re probably the best around to gauge the drain on Ireland. Either way, it’s a disgustingly huge number.
With figures like that, it is no wonder that the unemployment figures are dropping in Ireland.
Those figures mean nothing in relation to our emigration or unemployment. As you said then are just people with Irish passports entering the country for every reason under the sun. So your last statement is unfounded,
Sup dudes! Good news is we are SMASHING the Germans when it comes to immigration. They arent even in our league the bleedin saps.
C’mon you boys in green c’mon you….
From the CSO: 46,500 Irish people left the State between April 2011 and April 2012 and 20,600 returned.
So net Irish emigration was 25,900.
Good luck to them all whether they stay away or come home.
Well done enda and co.
How many of these people have left the country? Just like my friend that has left his wife and two kids behind ,last night, to head for Canada. He has worked and paid taxes since leaving school at 16 and he has been left with no choice but to emigrate.
Why didnt he take them ? He’ll find a new wife in Canada, not to worry.
Eamonn
What do you have to say to the Leaders of; Italy Greece Spain Portugal Hungary Etc etc etc?
Unemployment across the PIIGS countries:
February 2012:
Portugal: 14.8%
Italy: 10.1%
Ireland: 15.0%
Greece: 21.4%
Spain: 23.9%
February/March 2013:
Portugal: 17.5%
Italy: 11.6%
Ireland: 14.0%
Greece: 26.4%
Spain: 26.3%
Year on Year Change:
Portugal: +2.7%
Italy: +1.5%
Ireland: -1.0%
Greece: +5.0%
Spain: +2.4%
Emigration alone cannot explain such a massive disparity between the unemployment rates of the PIIGS countries. When you compare growth rates you’ll also find Ireland is amongst the best in Europe, not just among the PIIGS countries.
Eamonn hit the nail on the head,
Well done enda and co.
david see my point below
Saw the headline earlier,knew it was only a matter of time
David . What exactly are you praising Enda & Co over?
CSO do have figures for employment :-). Seems they and the Media just don’t like to shout about it. So David exactly what are you praising Enda & Co for ???
http://www.cso.ie/en/statistics/labourmarket/principalstatistics/
seems under Enda’s watch, less people are being employed, less people are in the country, and more people who are not counted in the labour force, all this helping skew the figures.
but per head of population, we have the highest. 4m people in Ireland vs 65m in Italy. You are a moron.
You are wasting your time Simon. He hits and runs…hasn’t got the nous to stay and discuss.
Look on the bright side , we should have some teams in the future under the parent and grandparent rule !!!!
@ David,
Ehh what about yesterday’s IMF report ??? Any comment from FG bitches on that ???
Why dose the Journal publish these bull sh*t reports, nobody believes them.
So 1.8 million workers are carrying an over generous welfare system for almost 1/2 a million people on a minimum of €188 – Unsustainable folks.
My wife signed off 2 weeks ago as her “stamps” had run out and because my income is too high she is not entitled to any benefit.
I would assume she is part of that 2200 no longer on the register.
My missus too. Funny thing is they still want her to go down and Q up for hours every week just so they can keep track of her. Not that there going to give her any money. Needless to say she gives them the finger and spends her time doing better things. I would imagine that the this might also account for some of the 1,065 males dropping out of the ‘long term’ category, I’m sure FG are patting themselves on the back for that one.
My wife was asked the same ,when she asked why?she was offered no reason.So needless to say she won’t be driving 15 miles to Q up for nothing.
I’d check that out if I were you, it could be so you get your PRSI stamps at least even if there’s no money, which could help come pension time…
Well I’m one of the 2200 was on the plane on Monday morning was full of construction workers
I would have waited for one that was finished before I got on it.
Unemployment is rising. I reckon that 2200 are all in Australia now, getting drunk and kicking the crap out of each other. Ah good ol’ paddy.
… Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. Mark Twain.
Waits for some members of Fine Gael to comment on this post…..
Yes shouldn’t be long before Kevin gets out of the scratcher and gets going
He’s now going under the name dilcos
My comment near instantaneously taken down. No problem leaving FG d1ckhead up on the previous post. No bias at all on the Journal…….
leaving ireland for work as we all know best of look to them all.
hope they dont have to go back to live in ireland i dont mean that in a bad way . we all miss home and proud to be irish but we cant make a living there any more.
Is there anyone out there, including the government spokesman, sorry spin doctor, who believe that 2,200 people have found jobs ?
No. ‘Internships’ ‘robsbridge’ and ‘pathway to slavery’ is the likely cause of the drop. Shifting numbers to suit their needs. Unemployment is at the bottom if Enda’s agenda…..vote yes for jobs, five point plan me arse.
Irish people doing a real homage to a John Denver song Leaving on a Jet plane still to this day. Newspaper reports of another 10 years of austerity budgets means the Irish will leave replaced by scam artists claiming political asylum from other locations slowing turning this country in the mirror image of the dumps that these scammers left behind. Ireland is dead with traitorous politicians and a majority gombeen populace. Time to leave this rat infested septic isle.
And here come the natsayers….falling all over themselves to talk down the country to validate their “woe is me” narrative.
Better than being sheep.
Alan you could give others pointers on how to make a fool if oneself,best to read a comment first before you attack even if in defence of the FG/Lab circus.
Here Dilcos, since you’re in with the FG crowd, any chance you could get them to check how long Ireland is obliged to support guests?
Roughly 14% of all the people signing on are not Irish or UK citizens (17.8% – 3.89% who are UK citizens and therefore entitled by reciprocal agreement with the UK). If they’ve contributed towards PRSI they’re entitled to a certain amount of support but we never turn off that tap. Eliminating that 14% would be a good start on reducing the bill.
Thousands are travelling to work in England and Scotland every Sunday eve/ mon morning and coming backing Friday evening. They’re counted as still living here but they’re not on the dole.
Ya just know that guy in the tracksuit is heading straight for dutch gold
It was SCL pils in my day.
Of course they’re down because the government keep opening new spots on JobBridge/Momentum/CE Schemes/Tús etc to skew the numbers. People are just moved off the Live Register onto these schemes to bring the numbers down. Don’t get me started about Farm Assist/One Parent Family/Back to Education…
No doubt this will be glorified today by government as a victory. Saying look the cuts work. As If.
Alan
heres my point
without the references to that fine article
the current government have done everything except create jobs
they have massaged the figures to the extent that nothing they tell us is believeable anymore
even the europeans dont trust them
that a minister has to report monthly is an indictment of the sheer incompetence of reilly and co
Great work by the government. If we got every one in the country working we would still have moaners telling us why it is a negative
I’d like to see how many of those 2200 left the country
This reports does not say they went back to work . .Just that they are not on the live register anymore.. It would actually be good for the CSO to produce a report on how many people are currently working along side this report. but fat chance of that I suppose, The fact that the unemployment percentage did not change tells a different story,
I have two staff at the moment who work part time and draw social welfare for days they don’t work, both of them are been harassed by social welfare officers trying to shove them onto Fas courses that they have no interest in!!!! their working with me and doing ok. leave them bloody alone! if they could get a full time position, they would! what’s the point of shoving people onto these courses and at the end they’ll probably end up back on full dole! oh yeah, it takes them off live register and massages the figures to make it look like less people are on SC! bull!!
Well said tisgrandSure that’s exactly what there doing to ppl can’t leave them alone, Sure it’s even hard trying to get part time work as for fas well less said the better !!!
Romantic Ireland is dead and gone,
‘Tis with O’Leary in the grave
Statistics are there to be manipulated depending on what you want to see.
I would love to see a report that states the following:
1. How many people are claming unemployment benefits.
2. How many people are on internships (jobbridge)
3. How many people are on collage courses and being paid by the government.
4. How many people emigrated since 2008.
I would say all these figures would not look pretty when compiled together. And show unemployment to be much higher than 14%( less the emigration figure).
But this wouldnt look good for the government now would it………
And Canada gets 2200 more employees…
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