Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the proposal although it is a pity that the EU has not had the urgency to date to deal with this issue, but it is better late than never. I wish to find out a bit more about the specifics because often one of the problems with such announcements is that, while there is a so-called guarantee and the Minister used the word "quality", we do not have the details.

Can the Minister guarantee that these are jobs of quality, that they are not yellow pack jobs and that there is no displacement of existing jobs involved? Furthermore, can she guarantee, in the case of training, that proper training will be provided, unlike the Tús scheme, where the State provides no training? Under that scheme, if participants are lucky, the employers they are placed with provide training. What happens at the end of this process? Are young people guaranteed a placement for six months or a year and is there a danger of simply shifting people off and back onto the live register? Obviously, the Minister will be addressing such issues in the coming months but I ask her to give us some further guidelines on the proposal because I do not want to be negative about this. Across Europe we must get young people, in particular, into employment, and I hope that will be where we can start to rebuild.

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