Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The approach we are taking in the budget is, first, to provide additional funding for measures that will increase and accelerate, we hope, the rate of job creation in the country, which will provide employment opportunities for young people. Second, it is to ensure there is sufficient funding for the education and training sector so there will be opportunities for young people to get education and training to equip them for the jobs of today and the jobs of the future, and to provide additional funding so the youth guarantee programme can proceed. Our objective is to ensure the young people of this country get the opportunity of work, which is what they need, and that they are equipped with the education and training which will provide them with the skills to take up those employment opportunities. For the life of me I cannot see why Deputy Daly is against that approach.

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