Young people from Crumlin in Dublin share their views on the lack of job opportunities.
Students from Coláiste Caoimhín and Loreto College in Crumlin give their views on unemployment.
Leaving Certificate student Selina Sweeney is frustrated when teachers ask pupils what they want to do after they leave school, as
There's no jobs anywhere and nobody’s doing anything about it.
In her view, the options are to go to university or go on the dole.
Jimmy Byrne believes job scheme courses run by An Comhairle Oiliúna (AnCO) are a means for the government to underplay the unemployment figures.
For Michael Buchanan, training courses need to provide jobs on completion. The current system creates,
a jack of all trades and a master of none.
Colette Lawlor suggests a retirement age of 60 and job sharing as positive ways to combat unemployment.
Shirley Comerford does not think the present government is doing enough for young people. Tracy O’Donnell thinks that whatever government is in power,
None of them can do anything for us.
Tracy O’Donnell has low expectations for the future,
We no longer have a choice of career; we take what we can get, or if we can get.
For school leavers, the only inevitability is joining the dole queue, earning the weekly payment of £30.
This episode of 'Anything Goes' was broadcast on 12 April 1986.
'Anything Goes' was a young people's programme on RTÉ Television which went out on Saturday mornings. Presented by Aonghus McAnally, Kathy Parke, Dave Heffernan, Mary FitzGerald and Mary Frances Calayco, it was first broadcast on 4 October 1980 and continued for 6 years.
