Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Everybody would hope for that but the problem is that young people with disabilities are specifically excluded from the youth guarantee. The Minister has an opportunity to correct that before the youth guarantee is developed any further. My question seeks to have disabled youth specifically included and to have a specific amount of funding set aside just for them. Most of the allowances and measures the Minister mentioned are not specific to young people.

My question was on the youth guarantee. Does the Minister intend at this stage to amend the youth guarantee and its documentation rather than wait for a promised review to ensure there will be no discrimination against young people with a disability? Will she try to assure organisations such as WALK, which made a presentation to the Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection last month and which was concerned, that there will be no discrimination and that measures will be implemented to enhance, rather than take away from, the opportunities, small as they are, for young people who are disabled?

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