Madam, – My son, who completed his training last year and is now a qualified carpenter, has written over 250 e-mails to builders, telephoned over 180, and spread the word that he wanted a job. He will do anything rather than be on the dole.
Thankfully, through his persistence and dedication, he has work for three months. He needs the job so that he can save the necessary funds to emigrate to Australia (and three months is only going to make a dint in that effort).
He traded his car for a van on the internet, and has just spent €1,700 on making it roadworthy. Now he will pay the road tax, after handing over the money for the DOE test.
He is a young man hanging on by his fingertips, with no choice but to live at home, working to keep a van on the road, and trying to save from what little is left so that he can emigrate to the other side of the world – to get a job. No back-packing for him, all he wants is a job to which he will give his all. That will enable him start to save for a future. A future that he is denied in his own country. And I suppose he is one of the lucky ones!
John Gormley and the Green Party should turn their attentions inwards and focus on one issue first and withdraw from a Government that allows expenses be abused. The cowardly path is go after the likes of my son (even though it is four-wheel drive SUV drivers with blacked out windows that they are trying to get at).
The Greens won’t be getting any votes in our household next time around, for the first time since the early 1980s. – Yours, etc,