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Ireland announces plan to accelerate jobs recovery in regions

Xinhua, February 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

Ireland on Wednesday announced details of its five-year, 250 million euro (about 283 million U.S. dollars) plan aimed at accelerating the jobs recovery in the country.

The plan, Action Plan for Jobs-Regional, will support agencies and organizations within each region to build on the particular strengths and assets of their area and drive new job-creation strategies and projects.

It will set out lists of actions with timelines and responsibility allocated, and then monitoring implementation.

Under the plan, each of the eight regions will develop its own action plan. The first plan will be published in the coming weeks for the country's midlands, with six plans published by July and all eight in place by the third quarter.

The Irish government has set a new target of 2018 to return full employment to the country, bringing it forward by two years from a previous deadline.

It has announced a series of measures, including a spring economic statement, investments in transport, infrastructure and skills shortages, and a low-pay commission to ensure work "pays better than welfare".

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said 40,000 new jobs will be created this year and unemployment would fall below 10 percent into single figures. Endit