Kathryn Reilly (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I join Senator Bacik in asking the professor to touch on the youth guarantee. Our Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, has stated she would advocate this during the Irish Presidency. Will the professor give his opinion on that issue? I refer again to long-term youth unemployment. How do we try to tackle it? As he noted it will be much harder for these young people to try to engage, come back to the labour market and upskill. As Senator Healy Eames noted, these are the people who will pay our pensions into the future. How do we tackle that problem now, given our high rate of long-term youth unemployment?