Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----in our economy are jobs that are being taken up by young people, for example, jobs in the digital sector. Many young people are employed in new types of employment being attracted into this country, including in the Dublin Docklands and in companies like PayPal in Deputy Adams' constituency. The Deputy should go and talk to those people and to others who are being employed. Many of the jobs being created in the new economy are jobs that, happily, are being taken up by young people. This is the reason the proportion of young people between 20 and 24 years of age in employment increased from 45.5% in the first half of 2012 to 47.6% in the first half of this year. This was the first increase in six years in this cohort of people taking up employment.

That said, we have a lot more to do. As I said earlier, approximately 59,000 of the people out of the workforce are under 25. We must get these people jobs or provide them with training or work experience.

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