Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As part of the European Presidency we put together a budget of €960 billion for the EU, a part of which is the €6 billion for youth unemployment. Of course that will not do the business. There is no point leaving it lying around until 2020 when young people will have moved on, in respect of their age and what they are at.

We want to rise to the challenge of providing as many places as we can. Programmes have been developed, either through the State or the State agencies, or as an amalgamation of private and State enterprise, for example, the JobBridge scheme was piloted for 5,000.

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