Letter to the Editor: Let the young people go back to work
It shouldn’t be forgotten that following the last recession, it was the young people of this country who paid the biggest price, in the short term through unemployment, emigration, and severe cuts to social welfare payments and in the longer term not being able to even rent a place of their own, having to continue to live with their parents, thereby effectively delaying their progression to full adulthood and for many never having the opportunity to start their own family.
Many of the young people who were in their early 20s and 30s in 2008, are now the people paying high rents for poor accommodation, working in low paid, insecure employment with little prospect of any improvement even before the lockdown resulting from Covid-19.
