Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

When I attended its ministerial meeting yesterday, I agreed with the Secretary General of the OECD that we will work together on a youth action plan for this country. That plan will be part of the youth guarantee that has been agreed at European Union level. On Tuesday, when I was negotiating the European Union budget for the next seven years, I proposed that the money which is available to address youth unemployment and which will have an impact in this country should be frontloaded in 2014 and 2015 in order that we might deal with this critical problem on a more urgent basis.

It is not enough just to talk, moan and complain about the problem-----

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