Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

I will ask the Minister. I have been a supporter of the move of youth back into the Department of education and was involved in that in the programme for Government talks. When I was Minister for Education and Science, youth affairs was part of the Department. The VECs, in particular, did very good work with various youth organisations. I would like to see the ETBs continue that sort of work. There is a continuum between education and youth and an area between the two. Youthreach programmes developed. We get a better kind of holistic approach to the development of young people, so I think it is a good thing. I will ask the Minister to reply to the Deputy regarding the opportunities he mentioned.

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