Mr. Niamh O'Donoghue:

The Commission decided to put out a call for pilot schemes in advance of the details of the youth guarantee being teased out and agreed to. We made a bid and secured approval for the project in Ballymun. Some of the experience gained in having an holistic focus on young people and seeing what we could do with the Ballymun initiative will inform our thinking on the national plan which we are required to develop by the end of this year. In other words, every member state has been asked to formulate specific plans for the youth guarantee and bring them to the European Union by the end of the year with a view to a full programme being rolled out from 2014 and 2015.