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SINN FÉIN HAS launched its jobs plan which it says will “demonstrate that with the political will the government can deliver 156,000 additional jobs”.
Sinn Féin spokesperson for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Peadar Tóibín was joined by party president Gerry Adams TD, deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald TD and finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty TD for the launch.
Deputy Adams said that the plan has been fully costed and provides a socially responsible way to reduce the deficit and create and retain jobs.
At the launch, Deputy Tóibín said: “In the last four years Ireland has shed more jobs than any other western state per capita since the Great Depression”.
We have identified €13 billion which can be sourced to create jobs, improve competitiveness and increase productivity. This would be funded from the National Pension Reserve Fund, European Investment Bank, incentivised investment from the private pension sector and we would end the capital spending cuts of this government.
He said that an investment of this scale would create about 156,000 jobs and retain up to 15,000 existing jobs.
Prioritise investment
It took six months to produce the proposal, and Sinn Féin said it will prioritise investment to:
It will also build an additional 100 schools and refurbish 75 more over the next three years (€350 million); establish 50 new Primary Health Care Centres (€250 million); and develop an €1billion investment in sustainable wind power and wave energy.
Create jobs
In addition to this, Sinn Féin said it will seek to support business to create jobs by:
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