Primetime programme on thursday

Hello all

I was watching the Primetime programme on Tuesday this week about the difficulties with making immigrants legal, about their low wages, the black economy and the injust injust manner in which some employers are not making these workers legal and how they are not paying them properly.

This situation is increasing, more and more people are employed in the black economy in Ireland. some immigrants are very happy to get pay in this manner, to receive lower incomes than their Irish colleagues for the same work but it is extremely unfair and injust and will lead to more difficulties for the overall economy. This underlying situation in Ireland needs to be tackled properly now by the government. apart from form this, there are a huge number of job losses recently within the manufacturing industry, again, we are not addressing this properly witha set of policies to deal with this, we are not looking at how people need to be upskilled, need to be equipped with better skills, better training and training in knowledge-based industries as opposed to traditional manufacturing industries. These latest happenings are going to change the face of the Irish economy, they are going to place a greater divide between people who are doing very well and those who are struggling. These issues should be tackled now because we need to include immigrants, we need to establish a much better inclusive policy in our education systems, and in our employment sector and not alienate people more and more - this is what we are doing right now.

Your comments please?