This is an audio file with a 22-second quote from CSO Statistician with the Labour Market Division, Colin Hanley, about the Labour Force Survey Quarter 2 2025 release.
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In the last ten years, employment in the Irish labour force has increased by more than 770,000 to a record 2,818,100 with almost 660,000 of those full-time roles.
Meanwhile, unemployment has fallen from around 230 thousand to 140 thousand. More than a fifth of those were classified as ‘long-term’ unemployed compared with over a half ten years ago.
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