Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I repeat that we have an unacceptably high level of unemployment in this country. This level of unemployment is particularly severe among young people. One in four young people between the ages of 16 and 25 in this country are out of work. There are far too many graduates in different professions coming out of college who are unable to find employment in this country. Many of these young people are, unfortunately, emigrating. What this is about is providing employment opportunities for 1,000 graduates, in this case in the nursing profession. The idea of a graduate entry recruitment scale or salary is nothing new. It is done in the private sector and public sector. It has been done often in the past. This is about providing and creating an additional 1,000 jobs for graduates who will go into the nursing profession.

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