Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

----jobs stimulus which will ensure that young people, among others, will be able to get jobs. In addition, I cite the increased money being given for tourism, the extra millions being given directly to the food industry and the employment stabilisation fund. Deputy Burton referred to the situation in which employers are unable to give full-time employment to people and they will be allowed to get them training for a couple of days a week and to keep them there. These are all the hopeful areas where people will be able to get jobs and that includes our young people. The one thing we all share here is an appreciation of the value and the importance of proper education and training. It is interesting that whereas my proposals are that young people start on a lower rate but jump up if they participate in education and training, Fine Gael made the same proposal but came at it from the opposite perspective because their proposal was to reduce the young people's allowance who did not participate. However, our policy ideas are similar. The legal aspects of the policy have been checked out because we did that with regard to the 18 and 19 year olds earlier this year. It is an incentive for people to be able to train-----

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