100,000 jobs for Dublin > Sinn Féin launches ‘Let’s Get Dublin Working’

Seán Crowe (Dublin South-West), Martin McGuinness and Paul Donnelly (Dublin West) launch 'Let's Get Dublin Working'

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND jobs can be created and saved, according to Let’s Get Dublin Working, an initiative launched by Sinn Féin County Councillor Seán Crowe and Martin McGuinness at the Jacob’s factory in Tallaght on Wednesday.

Seán Crowe said that although Dubliners have been particularly hard hit by unemployment, the capital was only part of a much larger group of unemployed people across Ireland affected by the Government’s sabotaging of the state’s economy.

He said that a radically different approach to job creation along with innovative ideas like those in Sinn Féin’s document are needed to turn the city around.

Dubliners have been particularly hard-hit by the refusal of the government to intervene in situations where jobs could have been saved. Standing here on this site outside the old and empty Jacobs Biscuit factory is a testament to that failure.

Unfortunately, the losses felt here have been replicated around the city of Dublin. From SR Technics in Swords to Dell in Cherrywood, thousands upon thousands of jobs have been lost because this Government has either ignored the employees, innovative proposals to keep companies open, or have failed to commit themselves in effort or time to come up with ideas of their own to sustain employment.

He said that Sinn Féin have come up with answers.

Our proposals are radical, practical and different.

Among them, is the call for more support to small and local businesses which form the backbone of many inner-city communities. Priority should not only be given to large manufacturers or factories.

Simple support like ensuring small businesses have access to credit or making sure local authority rates are not crippling them and protecting people’s incomes so they have disposable wages, are simple measures which if taken, would make a world of difference.

Sinn Féin has consistently said that the only way to properly deal with the current economic crisis is to focus on creating and retaining jobs.

We must get people back to work and get them spending again.  That is the only progressive way out of recession.