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2,000 jobs lost in Donegal in a year  22.06.08

A DONEGAL senator has called for a Seanad debate on Ireland's current job crisis.
Senator Pearse Doherty has asked the leader of the house Senator Donie Cassidy to invite Tánaiste Mary Coughlan to come into the Seanad to set out the Government’s proposals to deal with the weekly loss of jobs around the country. "In my own county of Donegal, which has one of the highest levels of unemployment in the State, 2,000 jobs were lost in the past year," said the Sinn Féin senator.
"However, this level of job losses is no longer unique to Donegal. Thousands of jobs are being lost on a weekly basis throughout the State as evidenced by the fact the unemployment levels have soared above 200,000 for the first time in a decade. In the last year, the Live Register rose by 31 per cent, representing the largest increase since records began in 1967. The Government’s response to the increase in unemployment has been inadequate to date."
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