Ireland creating new jobs at rate of 1,200 a week
28 February 2014
New jobs are being created at the rate of 1,200 a week, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said.
Fri 28 Feb 2014New jobs are being created at the rate of 1,200 a week, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said.
Kenny’s remarks came as unemployment in the Republic of Ireland fell to 12.1% in the final three months of 2013, the sixth consecutive quarter of falls. The rate of unemployment has been falling steadily since the beginning of 2012 when it stood at more than 15%.
At the same time, in a sign that the Irish economy is slowly recovering, employment continued to grow, according to the latest Quarterly National Household Survey.
It shows that the number of people employed grew by 61,000, or 3.3% in the year to the end of 2013.
“We had assumed [employment] growth would slow down this year but there is no sign that it is slowing down,” professor John FitzGerald of the Economic and Social Research Institute, told the Irish Times in response to the latest figures.
Kenny’s remarks came as unemployment in the Republic of Ireland fell to 12.1% in the final three months of 2013, the sixth consecutive quarter of falls. The rate of unemployment has been falling steadily since the beginning of 2012 when it stood at more than 15%.
At the same time, in a sign that the Irish economy is slowly recovering, employment continued to grow, according to the latest Quarterly National Household Survey.
It shows that the number of people employed grew by 61,000, or 3.3% in the year to the end of 2013.
“We had assumed [employment] growth would slow down this year but there is no sign that it is slowing down,” professor John FitzGerald of the Economic and Social Research Institute, told the Irish Times in response to the latest figures.
