Jobs market sending the right message

Watching the so-called people’s debates being broadcast in recent months, one would be forgiven for thinking that Ireland is still trapped in the hole in which it found itself back in 2009.

The programme this week from my hometown Waterford was particularly negative and depressing and was certainly a very poor advertisement for anybody who might be contemplating investing and creating jobs in the city. Perhaps there are vested interests in the city who actually do not want investment to happen, but if that is the case, they should be upfront and admit it. Those people were very much in evidence this week.

Investment and jobs are exactly what Waterford and many other parts of the country badly require, but to attract investment, an ‘open for business’ message has to be sent out.