Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I commend Senator Reilly and the Sinn Féin group for putting forward this motion. My party will fully support that motion. Senator Ó Clochartaigh read out a number of the points in the Sinn Féin motion and it is important to read some of them again because they are startling. Some 30.5% of under-25s are officially unemployed. The number of young people in employment has fallen by 24,100 in the last 12 months. Since this Government came into office the number of under-25s in the labour force has fallen by 34,500.