‘Aggressive’ plans to create jobs

Enda Kenny has promised to aggressively tackle unemployment this year and has ordered each of his ministers to come up with individual employment targets.

The Taoiseach said a special Cabinet meeting on jobs and job creation will be held later this month where each minister will be expected to outline their own specific job creation plans.

In an interview, he said the dedicated ministerial plans would be modelled on the quarterly action plan for jobs, which is overseen by Jobs Minister Richard Bruton and which was launched at the start of the year with the aim of creating 100,000 jobs by 2016.