Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Minister to outline the implementation procedure for the youth guarantee. Will his Department or the Department for Social Protection be the lead Department? More importantly, where is the budget line for the implementation of the guarantee? What is the current position on COSME? Is an agreement on a budget for it imminent? At the beginning of the Irish Presidency in January the Minister, the Taoiseach and others put great store in the fact that the Presidency would be a jobs-related one. We are now in the final months of the Presidency, or the final stretch of the marathon. How many jobs will have been created across Europe and here in Ireland as a result of Presidency initiatives?

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