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

Photo of Marie Louise O'DonnellMarie Louise O'Donnell (Independent)
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There are bigger matters than that in it. There is a significant amount of "cross-fertilisation". I hate such agricultural words, but there is a significant amount that could be used. If I hear the word "entrepreneurship" again, I will implode somewhere on a road when people have not the oracy to explain themselves. There is a considerable amount that could be done there in effective teaching, which the Department was doing within the vocational and other schemes as a given. There is an enormous amount in the arts and in sport that could be part of the youth guarantee. There should be some kind of that other dreadful cliché, "synergy", between this and the other.