Mr. Terry Corcoran:

They would be counted in the emigration numbers. The CSO publishes a breakdown of those entering and leaving the country by nationality in the annual estimates. A significant element of the migration in the past number of years has been people who had been recent immigrants.

Deputy Naughton asked a number of questions about the youth guarantee and about timelines and targets and so on. The medium-term objective of the European recommendation is that as far as possible young people should be offered something within four months of becoming unemployed. The measure we will use for that - we have set up the data systems to capture it - are that last year about 60% of young people who entered our register remained unemployed after four months. That is the number we will be reporting on quarterly from now on and the target is to get that number down as much as possible over time.

In our implementation plan published earlier this year, we published a range of measures as general metrics for progress with the youth guarantee. There is a number of programme steps that were to be taken in the implementation plan. These include extending the current process of engaging with the unemployed and this will happen to all young people immediately rather than only to those who are most disadvantaged as is the case for older jobseekers. That process is now being put in place as we speak. A number of changes have also been made already this year to programmes such as the JobsPlus subsidy, which is available only for people who have been unemployed for more than one year, if they are over 25 years, and that has been extended to young people who have been unemployed in excess of four months. That and a number of other changes required changes to the legislation to allow us to discriminate in favour of younger people. That was done in mid-year so those programme changes are taking place now.

In the context of the Youth Guarantee and on the issue of people with disabilities, as Mr. McKeon mentioned, it is true that they are not specifically mentioned in the Youth Guarantee implementation plan. The reason is that the main innovation in the Youth Guarantee implementation plan is that young people on jobseeker's payments will be referred to a case worker very early in their unemployment spell. The protocol already is that any person presenting at an employment office who has a disability is allocated to a case worker immediately, either one of our own or through the local employment service or thorough the employability services that is specific to people with disabilities and operates in each county. Those case workers working with young people with disabilities have access to the entire range of programmes that are available to other young people under the Youth Guarantee and, as Mr. McKeon mentioned, have a number of additional supports that can be given to young people with disabilities. Specifically, there is a range of training programmes by specialist training providers that are specific to people with disabilities, delivered by SOLAS and our people can refer young people with disabilities to those.

In addition, on top of any other recruitment subsidies that exist, there is a specific long-term recruitment subsidy for people with disabilities which does not just last for one or two years, as is the case with JobsPlus, but can continue indefinitely. The employability service itself, which has a ratio of staff to clients of the order of 1:40 as opposed to the ratio of 1:500 that Mr. McKeon mentioned elsewhere, allows for provision of mentoring while in employment once people are placed and so on.

It was in the context of the additional provisions that were being made in the Youth Guarantee implementation plan - it was not felt that specific additional provision needed to be made for this group - that these supports were not mentioned. That is not to say that some advocacy groups have not raised the question of why they were not mentioned. I think we will include a section outlining all these things in the next iteration of the plan next year. As Mr. McKeon said, if there are any actual cases of difficulty in accessing supports, we want to hear about them. We think this is a communications issue rather than fact. We speak to these groups in pre-budget and post-budget forums. We have not been hearing of specific cases. Obviously, we would act if there were such cases. I do not think I have anything else to add.