Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will need to double-check my information about the Departments. It is an amazing idea. As a young person, I basically had an unofficial apprenticeship in my community. It is important. Be it the Department Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, which our committee relates to, the Department of Education or the Department of Social Protection, someone needs to take responsibility for youth work apprenticeships and provide multi-annual funding so that young people can come up through the ranks and move from being youth leaders into working in their own communities. There is a lack of judgment if people are from the same community. People do not judge themselves.

I have said a great deal, so whoever sees the need to comment on it should feel free to do so.