Leo Varadkar: More ambitious targets on jobs

The country’s unemployment rate is predicted to be as low as 6.3% over the course of 2017 — after hitting a high of 15.1% at the peak of the financial crisis.

The latest unemployment rate — 6.6% for February — has prompted Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar to consider “more ambitious unemployment targets”.

“This [the latest rate] is really encouraging, but I think it also represents an opportunity for the Government to be even more ambitious in its plans,” he said.