Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Unemployment stabilised ten months before the Government came into power, but it has remained at the bottom since. The Minister can pick a couple of months here and there and use those statistics to try to argue in favour of his policies. However, from 2011 to 2013, the period of the Government's Administration, there has been a major net fall in the level of young people employed and in the level of those in the workforce. We have seen nothing substantial in regard to trying to sort that out. In the context of the youth guarantee, we called in committee for the Minister to ensure young people in the State would be guaranteed a job and opportunities for education and training. What is the Minister doing to guarantee those jobs for the young people who, because of the Government's economic policies, remain unemployed in the State?

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