DHAKA: The Irish authorities have asked the unemployed citizens to leave the country. This request is none other than a desperate attempt of the Irish authorities to reduce social security spending, ‘The Independent’ says.

The Irish government has sent letters to approximately 6,000 unemployed citizens, asking them to go to other EU countries, if they have a chance to get a job there.

This is how the Irish authorities are trying to reduce spending on the payment of unemployed benefits, ‘The Financial Times’ says, reports The Voice of Russia.

These letters contain various proposals for jobs.

For example, the proposal made to an Irish electrician is to go to Coventry in the east of the West Midland in England, and for another Irish citizen the local authorities have found a driver job in Malta.

Saying that although their wages there will be low, the Irish officials say that one of the advantages of getting a job outside the country, will be, for example, the ‘Mediterranean climate’.

The Irish authorities say that all these letters are only recommendations and that nobody is going to force Irish citizens to leave the country.

BDST: 2108 HRS, DEC 15, 2013
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor