More training ‘needed’ for jobless

The Government has been called on to increase the number of so-called ‘activation schemes’ in a bid to tackle long-term and youth unemployment.

Latest live register data, published yesterday by the CSO, shows a seasonally adjusted figure of 70,068 people availing of such state-funded programmes — aimed at helping people out of work for more than a year to upskill and find a job — as of the end of June.

That figure is up by nearly 4% on the same point last year.