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- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Second, we want to see young people in employment or in education and training. That is why we reached agreement on the youth guarantee, the idea behind which is that no young person should be more than eight months either out of the labour force or out of education and training. We have provided-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: We have provided the funding in this budget to enable that youth guarantee to be started and to be put into operation.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The position of the Government in regard to young people is this: employment, or education and training.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: To be fair to Sinn Féin, they spent a lot of time out of this House so they are making up for lost time.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I am true to form.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I am here in this House quite a long time. I make no apology for engaging with any Member of this House, as I have done over the years-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----in robust debate, but I have never stooped to making an attack on anybody's character. Deputy Daly should not invite me to reciprocate.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Daly asked me where we got the idea for our approach to youth unemployment.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: We have developed over a period of time the idea of a youth guarantee. The level of youth unemployment in this country and in a number of other European countries is too high and we want to get it down. We will get it down by creating employment, by providing work experience opportunities and by providing the education and training that equips young people to get into employment. We...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The approach we are taking in the budget is, first, to provide additional funding for measures that will increase and accelerate, we hope, the rate of job creation in the country, which will provide employment opportunities for young people. Second, it is to ensure there is sufficient funding for the education and training sector so there will be opportunities for young people to get...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I did answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I can give an assurance the reduction in the payment to RTE will not result in any diminution to people with the free television licence. It is intended-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----to move to a household charge for television purposes and people with a free television licence will continue to have a free payment of the new charge. There is absolutely no diminution in this. With regard to what the Government has done in the social protection budget, the Government has done €1.7 billion less than what Fianna Fáil undertook to do when it was in...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Not only are the figures in the four-year plan but the way in which it proposed to achieve them is in the four-year plan, and it proposed to achieve them by cutting rates-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and this includes, I presume, the cutting of old age pensions and other payments. We have now produced a budget which gets us out of the bailout without cutting basic social welfare payments.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: No young person who is currently on the reduced rate of payment will have this payment reduced. They will continue to be on the payment they are on. The change we have made to unemployment payments to young people must be seen in the context of what we are doing about the activation of young people into employment and into education and training.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is the Government's view the place for young people is at work, in job experience or in education and training. This is the best way for them to get out of unemployment.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Let me be clear we do not believe any young person should find himself or herself in a situation that he or she goes onto an unemployment payment at the age of 18 and are still on it at the age of 25.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is official Labour Party policy to get young people into jobs and into education and training so they are in a better position to take up employment opportunities. This is official Labour Party policy and it is the policy of the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: This is why in the budget we have provided an additional €500 million for employment creation measures. This is why we propose to employ additional teachers in our classrooms, and additional gardaí will be recruited for the first time in many years.