Dr. Shana Cohen

I think there's a political problem that, following on from that, that young people feel like they won't have any opportunities.

And then David McWilliams had a really interesting piece, and he said that the revolution's not going to come from the proletariat.

It might come from the highly educated, disaffected young people who don't see opportunities.

So to get ahead of it, I think it's right that the government needs to be thinking about what are alternative career paths, but also the domestic economy.

There is this longstanding issue of reliance on American companies for the most part and foreign direct investment while neglecting the domestic economy, the domestic tech sector and other industries.

And the government should focus attention on how to raise value added in the domestic economy and how to produce jobs in the domestic economy.

as an alternative to just relying upon the tax income and the job creation of multinationals.

I would say, yes, I can understand the point that Anne is making, that people feel like after four years, you could get your life together.

But for a single parent with small children, that might be quite challenging.

I got that.

But if you look at what the major concerns are for Irish respondents in the poll, if you look at housing and health care, they are very immigrant workforce dependent.

And so I think part of the problem is, again, going back to the macro issue,

that the government's immigration policy has to be coherent.

You have health care facilities or hospice care or, you know, home care.

Right.

But the point is that Ireland needs immigrants.

I'm not saying it doesn't.

It does need immigrants.

Of course it does.

So there are two issues here.