Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Youth Guarantee: Department of Social Protection

1:45 pm

Mr. Paul Carroll:

Absolutely. I got the figures recently and I will go through them.

There were 411 invited, of whom 63 are now in full-time employment, 19 are in casual employment, 15 are involved in internships and two are participating in Tús. Therefore, there are now 99 young people in Swords in some form of employment who, before February, were on the live register. A further 193 are undertaking courses of further education, training or development. It is not a case of waiting to see what happens in Ballymun; we are learning from the project on an ongoing basis and certainly applying in my division knowledge of what has been learned. My colleagues' divisional managers are attending a meeting today at which the youth guarantee is very much on the agenda and I have been asked to supply support. With regard to the approach we are adopting in Swords and potentially the approach we are adopting in Ballymun, the knowledge is being applied on an ongoing basis, notwithstanding the fact that there will not be a formal review of the project until September. I assure the committee that there are many ongoing developments.

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