Ryan Tubridy Show this week

Hello all

I was listening to the Ryan Tubridy Show this week and he did a feature on the unemployment rates in Ireland.

All the contributors to this slot seemed incredulous when they stated that the figure for unemployment in this country is 88,000 - the figure being 4.3% for people unemployed (1.3%) of this figure is for people who are longterm unemployed).

Ryan Tubridy continuously asked who are these people, where do they live and why are they not working?

One of the presenters stated that people with disabilities are not actually considered in this figure which I think is unbelievable, all contributors dismissed this section of our population stating that they are not considered because they do not ahve the ability to work!!!!!!!!

Not one person pulled them up on this, I sent numerous emails on this topic but they were not included in the disucssion.

I am amazed at this and can't believe that nobody form the NDA got on about this issue on air to debate this issue.

Your comments please.