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Stormont Still Failing the Economic Test

21 February 2013

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
 
“Once again we have seen figures released which show a fall in the number of people who are unemployed across the United Kingdom while the numbers here rose.
 
“UK wide the figure fell by 0.8% while it rose by 0.2% in Northern Ireland in the period from October to December according to the latest Labour Force Survey.
 
“A pattern of falling unemployment in Great Britain while it continues to rise in this part of the United Kingdom has been evident from studies for some time.
 
“Despite protestations that the economic health of Northern Ireland is the executive’s top priority it is evident that devolution is failing to deliver on this most vital issue. Our politically contrived links with the economic wasteland which is the Republic of Ireland is one of the primary reasons why we are lagging behind the UK.
 
“Our youth are finding it well-nigh impossible to find employment with, as I have warned previously, a lost generation emerging. The truth is that Stormont doesn’t have any idea how to deal with this issue. One has only to look at the fiasco surrounding the future of the Department of Employment and Learning with us being told months ago that it was to be scrapped only for it to be preserved because it was politically expedient to do so.”
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