Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Youth Guarantee: Discussion

1:55 pm

Mr. John McKeon:

I will take the question on the figure of €14 million; the other questions are directed at some of the other speakers.

The €14 million is a figure within the Department of Social Protection's Estimates for next year and three items make up the bulk of it. I do not have the Estimates with me, but I will send the detailed figures to the secretariat separately. There are an extra 1,500 to 2,000 places for young people under the JobBridge programme at a cost of about €7 million to €7.5 million; there are an extra 1,500 Jobs Plus places at a cost of about €5 million; and there is the youth enterprise initiative in the order of €2 million. I will send the exact breakdown, but these are the three components that make up the figure. The Department of Education and Skills makes provision for places on Momentum. Its spend on Momentum for young people will be about €6 million, which excludes the social welfare payments we will continue to pay to the young people concerned. I believe I have broken down the figure of €14 million for the Deputy.

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