Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Stanton for raising this important question and the Minister of State for his response. We need to consider this issue. People are dropping out of the education system and finding it difficult to get back into training. We need to do much more for them. One of the frightening figures over the past week was that 12% of households of people aged 20 to 64 years did not have an income coming in other than through State supports. The figure in the UK is 8%. In other European countries, it is 6%. Has this analysis been examined by the Department in order to see what further work can be done to develop additional educational facilities so that we can get people into training and then into employment?

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