Enda Kenny: We’ll find 50,000 more jobs by 2020

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has claimed Government will be able to find jobs for 50,000 more long-term unemployed people by the end of the decade, if it is re-elected to power.

The Fine Gael leader outlined the high-profile pre-election promise alongside Tánaiste and Labour leader Joan Burton yesterday, emphasising his call late last year to “make work pay” by dis-incentivising welfare payments through reforms which is likely to form a key part of the initiative.

Speaking at the launch of the Coalition’s Pathways to Work 2016-2020 strategy, Mr Kenny said he wants to end the negative aspects of welfare payments by reforming the system and helping “families trapped in the cycle of poverty and joblessness”.