Tag: Unemployment

  • Government policy is working – Noel Coonan TD

    Government policy is working – Noel Coonan TD

    Fine Gael Tipperary TD Noel Coonan, has welcomed CSO Quarterly figures released today which show that the Irish economy grew by 7.7% in GDP terms and by 9% in GNP terms year on year. “I am very encouraged today with the news that the Irish economy has grown by 7.7% GDP and by 9% GNP…

  • Tipperary’s Cold Comfort from Minister Kelly’s Council Funding

    Tipperary’s Cold Comfort from Minister Kelly’s Council Funding

    Minister Kelly has assured us that no local authority will get less funding than it got in this year 2014. But his government has reduced government funding to Tipperary local authorities by over 20 million Euro or 48% since it came to power in 2011. But the situation is even worse than Minister Kelly says.…

  • Healy Blasts Government on Job Creation

    Healy Blasts Government on Job Creation

    Tipperary has been abandoned by this government. Unemployment now stands at over 15,500 in this County, having increased again for the last 2 consecutive months. All major towns in the County now have unemployment rates close to or more than twice the National average. Meanwhile, the Industrial Development Authority Report for 2013 and the first…