WATCH: “We don’t value them as the asset they are. We’re still breeding our young people, like our cattle, for export.” BKNT
She was speaking after it emerged the number of Irish people living in Britain has fallen by 20% since 2011.
“Then you look at pensions. Young people are the ones who are going to pay for older people’s pensions now, despite having zero chance of having those pensions themselves, when they reach the same age.“When you look at things like wealth in this country, wealth is mainly held in property in this country and young people are, through a variety of reasons, excluded, pretty much, from owning property wealth in this country.
“Yes, they travel for good reasons and fun and adventure and all of that but I think we’re not doing enough for our young people to stay here.”She questioned why Ireland spends so much money trying to encourage people to live and work here, when our own young people are leaving in such high numbers. “We don’t even value them as the asset that they are. We are still breeding our young people, like our cattle, for export.”Co-presenter Vincent Wall agreed that Ireland is a “very, very difficult place to be” for many young people at the moment – but suggested that most are leaving, ‘not with frustration and anger in their heart, but for adventure’.
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