Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate it is not simple at all. I will make two points. First, I agree that one cannot necessarily get many unemployed plumbers working in high-tech Internet jobs. The rate of unemployment among those under 25 in Ireland is approximately 25%. According to the Union of Students in Ireland, for graduates it is 40%. It has nothing to do with construction. The jobs are not out there. I hear in Mr. Nagarajan's explanation a rationale that we must prepare the workforce for a good healthy balance of jobs when the jobs begin to arrive again. I agree with that, but let us not put all our efforts into getting all of these unemployed people ready and none of our efforts into helping to create those jobs.