Lost Generation

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:00:31. > :00:35.Wonder graduations at Queen's University in Belfast. The hard

:00:35. > :00:39.graft has paid off for the students, and they can now enjoy a great

:00:39. > :00:44.sense of pride and achievement. It is a day of celebration, with

:00:44. > :00:50.thoughts of what comes next. Especially in these harsh economic

:00:50. > :00:53.times. If you look at it rationally, the number of graduates coming out

:00:53. > :00:56.with a number of jobs, their realistic we are not enough, so you

:00:56. > :01:00.have to think of it like that and make sure you're the one who gets

:01:00. > :01:05.noticed. I am looking for jobs at the moment, but it is quite

:01:05. > :01:09.difficult. In the meantime, while I'm trying to find some kind of

:01:09. > :01:15.graduates job, I am working as a barman. It is so difficult that the

:01:15. > :01:23.minute. Does keep trying and hope for the best. It is quite hard to

:01:23. > :01:27.get a job overseer at the minute. I have been applying for quite a few.

:01:27. > :01:32.-- get a job over here at the minute. When I graduated from

:01:32. > :01:37.Queen's College back in the 1980s, I was fortunate to find a job quite

:01:37. > :01:41.quickly. I wonder how difficult it will be for today's students. Not

:01:41. > :01:45.least because my own son has just started on his university career.

:01:45. > :01:49.We all want our children to have better ways than her own, but for

:01:49. > :01:53.the next generation, they are real concerns that it will not happen.

:01:53. > :01:57.It is a tough time to look for a job, and the younger you are, the

:01:57. > :02:02.tougher it can be. With almost one in five young people unemployed, it

:02:02. > :02:04.can be a big problem. It has led to talk of the lost generation

:02:04. > :02:10.struggling to find their way. I have been following a group of

:02:10. > :02:14.young jobseeker's baffling to make a life for themselves.

:02:14. > :02:19.Emma Taylor has a first-class honours degree from the University

:02:20. > :02:24.of Ulster. He also has a student debt of �20,000. Seven months after

:02:24. > :02:29.leaving university, she has had nothing but part-time work. I am 24

:02:29. > :02:32.and still living at home with my parents. Still working part-time.

:02:32. > :02:38.And have no prospect of getting a full-time job we getting myself

:02:38. > :02:43.onto the career ladder. 22-year-old Adam Pettigrew thought

:02:43. > :02:47.training as a bricklayer would get in a trade for life. The collapse

:02:47. > :02:53.of the building industry catapulted him into a team once without work.

:02:53. > :02:58.Being unemployed, I thought, this is it. No more work, I will be

:02:58. > :03:02.unemployed for the rest of my days, living off for the state.

:03:02. > :03:04.Unemployed graduates Jamie Kidd is packing up and going to New Zealand

:03:04. > :03:11.after a three-and-a-half of scraping a living on temporary

:03:11. > :03:21.contracts, all of which have dried up. I thought, I cannot do any more

:03:21. > :03:31.

:03:31. > :03:36.of this. My work is so ad hoc that With 20,000 of our young people out

:03:36. > :03:39.of work, I wanted to find out how difficult it is for them to find a

:03:39. > :03:43.job. We brought her three jobseeker's together with a group

:03:43. > :03:48.of graduates, trainees and those without work to share their stories.

:03:48. > :03:54.Who is currently in a position to be actually actively looking for

:03:54. > :03:59.work at the moment? Bikila, you are a teacher? Recently

:03:59. > :04:02.qualified, in the summer. Every job that I have applied for has

:04:02. > :04:06.required at least one year's experience. That is excluding

:04:06. > :04:12.teaching practice. They do not even take you for interviews or anything

:04:12. > :04:18.like that. The situation is bleak in Northern Ireland with job

:04:18. > :04:23.prospects and competition. I am a key teacher, and it is competitive

:04:23. > :04:28.in its own right. There are a lot of P E teachers. I have only had

:04:28. > :04:33.one interviewer and this is my second year at it. It is very grim,

:04:33. > :04:40.and there are no jobs. How hard have you found finding the job he

:04:40. > :04:45.once defined? I ran out of money and had to come home. It was kind

:04:45. > :04:49.of like starting again. Emma Taylor started university in

:04:49. > :04:53.2008, the Year of the credit crunch, when the world went from boom to

:04:53. > :04:58.bust. In an effort to keep a student said law, see combined her

:04:58. > :05:01.studies with a part-time job. started here when I first started

:05:01. > :05:06.by decree. What I would find is that my part-time experience here

:05:06. > :05:10.would actually count more towards me getting a job and my actual

:05:10. > :05:14.degree would. The vast rhetorical arts students have at least one

:05:14. > :05:17.part time job. They are always following the American model of

:05:17. > :05:22.working their way through college. It is very disheartening for them

:05:22. > :05:28.to find out that their prospects are very limited. Nevertheless,

:05:28. > :05:32.enough old acoustic we would make her one of the lucky ones. I was

:05:32. > :05:36.initially quite confident that I would find a job, because I had

:05:36. > :05:41.such a great result. That has definitely decreased over time. I

:05:41. > :05:46.am struggling to find work, everyone is in the same boat.

:05:46. > :05:53.is stuck in the same part-time job in a DIY store that he had when in

:05:53. > :05:58.university. C M �6.60 per hour, and feels that despite having a degree,

:05:58. > :06:01.she has little prospect of beginning a career. It is really

:06:01. > :06:05.disappointing to me to find out that it is really not of any

:06:05. > :06:09.benefit to me to have a degree. None of the roles available require

:06:09. > :06:14.me to have a degree. For someone like Emma, it is as if her life has

:06:14. > :06:19.been put on hold. Unable to take the next step into adult life, she

:06:19. > :06:24.is stuck between education and work. I cannot imagine having a mortgage

:06:24. > :06:28.or anything like that. Because I have a student loan, it seems that

:06:28. > :06:33.other massive debt. Another financial burden to undertake.

:06:33. > :06:39.it is the features of Emma and her whole generation that are in danger

:06:39. > :06:44.of being mortgaged in the face of the economic downturn. -- the

:06:44. > :06:48.futures of Emma and her generation. There is not a huge amount of jobs

:06:48. > :06:51.that these people can find over the next two or three years. There is a

:06:51. > :06:56.real possibility that this can build up and build up, and people

:06:56. > :07:01.will stay forever out of the labour market. Every here you are out of

:07:01. > :07:05.work, it becomes more difficult to get back in. Five years out of work,

:07:05. > :07:08.becomes more difficult to get in if you are just one year out of work.

:07:08. > :07:12.If it is bad for graduates, it is worse for those young people who

:07:12. > :07:16.have not been to university, even those who thought the dead have the

:07:16. > :07:22.skills to make a living. An apprentice bricklayer from the age

:07:22. > :07:26.of 16, Adam Pettigrew thought he would always be able to find work.

:07:26. > :07:31.I was planning on being a sub- contractor, I wanted to be top of

:07:31. > :07:35.my game whatever I'm doing. I was not as planning on being a

:07:35. > :07:39.bricklayer for the rest of my life, I wanted to move up. When the

:07:39. > :07:44.recession hit and the property market suffered, 30,000 people lost

:07:44. > :07:50.their jobs in the construction sector here. Adam found himself not

:07:50. > :07:58.only without work, but without prospects. Depressing. It's just

:07:58. > :08:07.satyrs your confidence. He have no drive, it is hard, you feel. -- get

:08:07. > :08:14.there just shatters your confidence. Adam became one of Northern Ireland

:08:14. > :08:18.posmac 48,000 GAA. -- needs. Young people not in employment education

:08:18. > :08:24.or training. The good news for Adam is that the

:08:24. > :08:34.statistics no longer include him. He has started retraining as a chef.

:08:34. > :08:41.

:08:41. > :08:46.Are you were wanting to try this? Your expert opinion.

:08:46. > :08:51.We need Chantilly cream with lemon tart.

:08:51. > :08:56.You are determined to will finish this course and get a decent job?

:08:56. > :09:01.have my head focused on one goal. My career is more important than

:09:01. > :09:09.anything, I am just sticking at it and getting my career. I want to be

:09:09. > :09:16.a chef. Add the lemon juice to the cream. What do you parents make of

:09:16. > :09:21.this transformation? Proud as punch. My dad is at university, he is 47

:09:21. > :09:31.and he went to university. He was a taximan, but then all of the

:09:31. > :09:34.tradesmen went into taxi. If my dad can do it, so can I. A few look

:09:34. > :09:38.ahead, for five years down the line, what do you think you might be

:09:38. > :09:43.doing? What would you like to be doing? I would like to be working

:09:43. > :09:53.in a top misalliance a restaurant, and if not misalliance are then

:09:53. > :09:53.

:09:53. > :09:58.fine dining. -- Michelin-starred. Immigration is the traditional

:09:58. > :10:01.response to unemployment on this island. At the height of the boom

:10:01. > :10:05.and the so-called Celtic Tiger down south, huge numbers of people were

:10:05. > :10:09.attracted home by good jobs, reversing the trend in previous

:10:09. > :10:15.generations. Today, many of the young people we have spoken to are

:10:15. > :10:19.expected to have to go of May to find work.

:10:19. > :10:23.In the two years since he left university, 25-year-old film

:10:23. > :10:28.studies graduate trainee Ket has been unable to find steady work.

:10:28. > :10:33.Tired of being hired and fired on a series of short term contracts, he

:10:33. > :10:37.has decided to emigrate. I wanted to get into the film industry, but

:10:37. > :10:41.a lot of people want to do it and there are not many jobs. I did not

:10:41. > :10:46.find it would be difficult to find a job anywhere else. Jimmy had

:10:46. > :10:50.hoped to find a job in London, but when he did not, he came back home.

:10:50. > :10:54.-- see me. Back to a graduate dole queue which has more than doubled

:10:54. > :11:01.in the past few years. When you are in uni, you're in this bubble. When

:11:01. > :11:05.you come out, you go kind of all crap. I need money. I need money

:11:05. > :11:10.for rent, I need money for food, stuff like that. You are on your

:11:10. > :11:14.own. With friends already living and working in New Zealand, Jamie

:11:14. > :11:19.is not prepared to be unemployed here. Despite trepidation, he has

:11:19. > :11:24.decided he would rather take his chances out there. It is scary.

:11:24. > :11:30.Leaving everything you know and the people you care about. It is

:11:30. > :11:36.daunting. It is exciting at the same time. It is a great experience

:11:36. > :11:46.and they cannot wait to do it. Then again, it is harder by trier to

:11:46. > :11:48.

:11:48. > :11:52.For mum Lorna, it is not just her son's leaving that is on her mind,

:11:52. > :11:57.but whether he will go the way of others in the family. My uncle went

:11:57. > :12:03.out when he was probably Jamie's age to join his uncle in Australia,

:12:03. > :12:07.and never came back. He has had four children out there, they have

:12:07. > :12:13.all have families, both my sisters went to London in their early

:12:13. > :12:18.twenties and have made lives there. My father's family are all in

:12:18. > :12:22.Canada, so I am the only one left. Lorna understand why Jane needs to

:12:22. > :12:26.go but is reluctant to see him leave. I would prefer that he

:12:26. > :12:30.stayed here and got married and had his family here and everything, but

:12:30. > :12:35.it is unfortunate. People have always left Ireland through the

:12:35. > :12:42.centuries, haven't they? I think he is excited, but he is also

:12:42. > :12:47.apprehensive. He needs to embrace it, I think. I would like to check

:12:47. > :12:57.in for Heathrow. My mum doesn't want me to leave. But she didn't

:12:57. > :13:20.

:13:20. > :13:25.want me to stop -- doesn't want to How do you feel? Quite sad. I

:13:25. > :13:33.suppose that I can't... Protecting anymore, not that I could protect

:13:33. > :13:42.him in the first place! But he will be fine. And I will miss him.

:13:42. > :13:46.There is evidence to suggest that more and more young people see

:13:46. > :13:50.their future outside Northern Ireland. What we would find in the

:13:50. > :13:53.grammar schools is whether they are Protestant or Catholic, over 70% of

:13:53. > :13:57.people want to leave it. Their plan is to leave Northern Ireland

:13:57. > :14:01.because they have assessed the situation here and feel that they

:14:01. > :14:04.run up the opportunities for them. I think it is very unfortunate for

:14:04. > :14:08.Northern Ireland, because we are losing 8th generation of people

:14:08. > :14:12.when we need them, we need their talent and their skills. We would

:14:12. > :14:15.want to utilise these people's skills in order to generate profits

:14:15. > :14:19.and economic growth, and we are not able to do that because there

:14:19. > :14:29.simply are not the jobs in those high in sectors in the same volume

:14:29. > :14:32.Training night at the local GAA ground. Just like Jamie, these

:14:32. > :14:38.Northern Ireland graduates are also facing up to leaving home. They

:14:38. > :14:45.have done it already. This is not counted down, it is Middlesex. --

:14:45. > :14:49.not County Down. Work hard, play hard. These young men had been

:14:50. > :14:53.hoping for jobs in the construction sector but by the time they

:14:53. > :14:59.graduated, the industry in Northern Ireland had collapsed, so they

:14:59. > :15:06.found themselves here, in London, looking for jobs. Tighten it up in

:15:06. > :15:11.the middle! The numbers in the club have risen tenfold because of what

:15:11. > :15:18.has happened at home. It is good news for you, but what does it say?

:15:18. > :15:24.Are it is awful sad. I'm here 24 years myself. We're finding that

:15:24. > :15:28.they are staying for a lot longer. There is nothing to go home to. And

:15:28. > :15:32.I'm afraid, when they come over now, they get settled in London, they

:15:32. > :15:42.enjoy it, they will not be coming back home for a while. It is

:15:42. > :15:43.

:15:43. > :15:48.These players have managed to find professional jobs here, but when

:15:48. > :15:54.they were back home, it was different story. For while, I was

:15:54. > :15:59.picking apples in Armagh. Picking an entire crate of a portable

:15:59. > :16:04.around �8 an hour. Do you miss home? You miss your friends and

:16:04. > :16:08.family at home, definitely, some day we will probably all go back,

:16:08. > :16:12.but over here it was a great opportunity, we have all the boys

:16:12. > :16:18.here in the same boat, it is like a home away from home. I felt strong

:16:18. > :16:22.enough to leave home, leave my family, for me it was London, may

:16:22. > :16:27.be mainland Europe, but I think Australia and the USA are too far

:16:27. > :16:32.away. Are you optimistic things are going to get better? You have to be

:16:32. > :16:38.optimistic. It is not about earning money, it is about getting

:16:38. > :16:42.experience on the CV. It gives other people hope, as well.

:16:42. > :16:47.optimistic that things will get better back home? Hopefully they

:16:47. > :16:50.will. If we feel we can bring something back home, breaded back

:16:50. > :16:55.to where it should be, it is up to us, it should be our responsibility

:16:55. > :17:03.to make sure my sons and daughters have opportunities back home, where

:17:03. > :17:08.I want them to grow up. 24-year-old quantity surveying graduate Ronin

:17:08. > :17:12.jumped at the chance of professional work in London. I was

:17:12. > :17:18.labouring for five or six months for a bricklayers, bent the phone

:17:18. > :17:23.call came, I decided to jump on it, I took the flight. The job he got

:17:23. > :17:29.was as an assistant quantities a buyer at a company in the City of

:17:29. > :17:33.London, where I went to meet him. - - assistant quantity surveyor. Run

:17:33. > :17:37.and admits to being homesick and says it hadn't been for the work,

:17:37. > :17:42.he wouldn't have left Newry. But like generations before him, he

:17:42. > :17:46.thinks he might have a better teacher outside Northern Ireland.

:17:46. > :17:50.am just going to take it as it comes, even if I was offered a job

:17:50. > :17:54.back home tomorrow, I don't know if I would take it or not, because I

:17:54. > :17:59.am with a very good company at the mind, and I'm working on big

:17:59. > :18:03.projects. I don't know if I would get that experience back home.

:18:03. > :18:07.on the road to Newry to meet his parents. His father is having to

:18:07. > :18:13.come to terms with the fact that another son, Glyn, is also likely

:18:13. > :18:16.to end up working outside Northern Ireland. He went for an interview

:18:16. > :18:21.this morning in Northern Ireland. Fingers crossed, he will get that

:18:22. > :18:28.job. Would he be keen to join his older brother? I think so. I think

:18:28. > :18:33.most parents would like to have their children work at home, work

:18:33. > :18:38.in the area, and live around the area, but there is no work here, so

:18:38. > :18:43.they had better go up and get it dented around and do nothing.

:18:43. > :18:48.people are resigned to that fact? This is it. What about the rest of

:18:48. > :18:52.your children? You have five altogether. Have you talked to the

:18:52. > :18:55.younger ones about what they might do? I live in hope that every time

:18:55. > :19:00.you hear on the news, the economy is going to get better and there is

:19:00. > :19:05.going to be more jobs. What about student debt? Is it something you

:19:05. > :19:09.have given a lot of thought to that you are frustrated about? I am

:19:09. > :19:14.frustrated about that, speaking to others in London, I know they're

:19:14. > :19:18.not going to make money, they are just going to cover their costs,

:19:18. > :19:24.the cost of accommodation, it is just phenomenal. They are not going

:19:24. > :19:29.to be able to make any savings or pay off any of that student loan.

:19:29. > :19:33.Students here leave university with a debt, on average, of �15,000. The

:19:33. > :19:41.Universities Minister says that is why the executive has decided to

:19:41. > :19:45.freeze fees and �3,500 a year to continue their education. I think

:19:45. > :19:50.he executive sends a signal that we value our younger people, we value

:19:50. > :19:54.higher education, we want them to stay in Northern Ireland and build

:19:54. > :19:57.their careers there. Despite that reassurance from government, money

:19:57. > :20:03.remains a major issue for the younger people we spoke to. Many

:20:03. > :20:10.simply cannot imagine a future when they are financially independent.

:20:10. > :20:13.Can we talk a bit about money? Mikayla, how much of an issue is it

:20:13. > :20:19.what you have spent on your education become for you at the

:20:19. > :20:24.moment? Well, I am thousands of pounds in debt, at the minute, and

:20:24. > :20:28.I'm not making enough money to start paying it back. So God knows

:20:28. > :20:31.when that will happen, I will have to get a job first before I can

:20:31. > :20:37.start paying it back. I think I will just be in debt for the rest

:20:37. > :20:45.of my life. Can you put any kind of figure, the kind of debt you have

:20:45. > :20:49.amassed? Between 15,000 to �20,000 in debt. I am terrified that I

:20:49. > :20:53.don't have a job, so I can't really start worrying about those issues,

:20:53. > :20:57.as far as pensions and property ladders are concerned, that seems

:20:57. > :21:03.to me like a trip to the moon, that is a long way off for me yet. I

:21:03. > :21:08.have got pressing concerns. How do you feel about the whole financial

:21:08. > :21:14.question? I would still go back and do it all over again, I absolutely

:21:14. > :21:18.love my degree. I think it was �20,000 well spent. I just put it

:21:18. > :21:24.to the back of my mind and forget it until I am earning money, then I

:21:24. > :21:28.will think about it. With fewer jobs now available, graduates are

:21:28. > :21:33.increasingly taking the work that less qualified school leavers would

:21:33. > :21:37.have expected to get in the past. Indeed there is a knock-on effect,

:21:37. > :21:41.what we are seeing now is people who would have started in the

:21:41. > :21:44.supermarket or the bar, they feel very squeezed, because they simply

:21:44. > :21:48.cannot get employment. The people who would previously have got that

:21:48. > :21:54.job but now don't, maybe are now unemployed, so it has had a knock-

:21:54. > :21:58.on effect. Even longer term, those graduates start to tell brothers or

:21:58. > :22:01.sisters, all their children, their experience, and that can feed

:22:01. > :22:08.through into disillusionment with education probably don't think it

:22:09. > :22:12.is worth the investment. If you think of it from the employer's

:22:12. > :22:17.perspective, faced with a 50 children applying for a job, they

:22:17. > :22:22.will automatically gravitate towards the most qualified one, so

:22:22. > :22:27.it is difficult to see that employers could be encouraged to

:22:27. > :22:32.choose the lower skilled above the higher skilled. Emma, you have got

:22:32. > :22:36.your degree and you were saying you work part-time in a DIY store, so

:22:36. > :22:40.your degree is of no relevance as far as that is concerned. Do you

:22:40. > :22:45.think you're keeping someone else out of the job who would be

:22:45. > :22:52.perfectly capable of doing the job you are doing? Well, I had started

:22:52. > :22:55.at job before I took the degree, I have been there three years.

:22:55. > :23:01.Obviously, I might be keeping somebody from that job, but I need

:23:01. > :23:05.a job as well, as anybody else. there are concerned that time of

:23:05. > :23:08.the job people without degrees might have done, like working in a

:23:08. > :23:11.supermarket or doing bar work, isn't available because graduates

:23:11. > :23:19.who cannot find jobs in line with what they have studied are looking

:23:19. > :23:25.for that kind of employment? I used to work in a shop where... It was

:23:25. > :23:31.just work experience, everyone there had a degree. It was just a

:23:31. > :23:35.normal shop, grocery shop. Do you think it is more difficult now to

:23:35. > :23:41.do what you want to do than it would have been a few years ago?

:23:41. > :23:45.Definitely. I was 16, just left school, but got a job and a call

:23:46. > :23:51.centre by clicking my fingers. It was a phone interview. Now I cannot

:23:51. > :23:54.even get an interview. It is weird, what you're saying is you are being

:23:54. > :24:00.turned down for jobs because you don't have a degree, whereas I am

:24:01. > :24:03.because I do have a degree. At the reality is that a young person that

:24:03. > :24:10.the degree is around twice as likely to be unemployed as someone

:24:10. > :24:13.with a degree. As dramatic as the figures might be in terms of youth

:24:13. > :24:17.unemployment, the figures show that for graduates, there prospect of

:24:17. > :24:22.having a job and sustaining a job are higher than those who don't

:24:23. > :24:25.access Higher Education, so even though people are coming out with

:24:25. > :24:31.degrees, there really is strong evidence that suggests you are far

:24:31. > :24:35.better off considering going into higher education or equivalent.

:24:35. > :24:40.would be wrong to think there is no hope of the today's young people. I

:24:40. > :24:50.am on my way to catch up with Emma, who is in the process of moving to

:24:50. > :24:52.

:24:53. > :24:56.set up a new online newspaper. Emma will run the paper's marketing and

:24:56. > :25:00.support herself with another part- time job. It happened really

:25:00. > :25:04.quickly, but I'm really excited about it, because we have been

:25:05. > :25:09.focused on trying to get appear so we could work on it, so it has been

:25:09. > :25:15.a really quick transition, but to do something I have wanted and we

:25:15. > :25:20.have been planning to wards. Perhaps ironically, one of the

:25:20. > :25:25.paper's most popular features is a section dedicated to Newry's lost

:25:25. > :25:29.generation. What of the people you have spoken to said about their

:25:29. > :25:34.experience? It is basically called Newry's lost generation, it is

:25:34. > :25:42.about each person who has left Newry, they're pretty much our age

:25:42. > :25:47.bracket, and they are all leaving, they are in Canada, Australia, even

:25:47. > :25:51.some have gone to Bangkok and different places. What are your

:25:51. > :25:57.hopes of what the newspaper could become? What is the potential?

:25:57. > :26:01.have worked it out that if we had a full advertising budget, everyone

:26:01. > :26:05.advertising with us, we could potentially make a decent salary,

:26:05. > :26:13.it wouldn't be grade, but it would be above the national minimum wage.

:26:13. > :26:21.Enough to live on. If this venture ultimately isn't a success, would

:26:21. > :26:26.you go? Yes. Whether it be Canada or Australia, will definitely not

:26:26. > :26:30.be staying. As for our other young jobseekers, Adam has four months

:26:30. > :26:36.left on his course, at the end of which he is hoping to get a job as

:26:36. > :26:39.a specialist pastry chef. And as for Jamie Kidd, who emigrated to

:26:39. > :26:49.New Zealand in search of a better start in life, we caught up with

:26:49. > :26:55.

:26:55. > :26:59.him up with the help of modern Hello. How are you? I am good. You

:26:59. > :27:09.have had about a week. Are you optimistic he will find a job

:27:09. > :27:09.

:27:09. > :27:18.What about missing your folks back home? We know your mum was pretty

:27:18. > :27:26.upset in particular. Do you think you have done the right been going

:27:26. > :27:36.to New Zealand? -- of the right thing? Had it all works out. All

:27:36. > :27:45.

:27:45. > :27:48.We are entrepreneurs, innovators, and they are going away. The key

:27:48. > :27:52.difficulty for Northern Ireland is they cannot see any prospect of

:27:52. > :27:57.coming back, so we lose those skills, and we lose the

:27:57. > :28:04.intelligence they have gained. is a danger the executive is

:28:04. > :28:08.determined to avoid. Whether you go to Great Britain or the south, or

:28:08. > :28:16.anywhere, the message is, please come back and invest your feature

:28:16. > :28:21.in the Northern Ireland economy. But will there be a future?

:28:21. > :28:26.Ultimately, they will face a challenging environment, such is

:28:26. > :28:29.the nature of the competitively global world. In the face of all

:28:29. > :28:34.the progress we can see around us, it is extraordinary that we should

:28:34. > :28:39.be talking about a lost generation. But swirling about as are the