Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 5:

To insert the following paragraphs after “calls on the Government to:” “- increase investment in youth work services to meet the needs of a growing youth population, noting that funding for youth work is still 8.5% below 2008 levels, and to invest an additional €10 million to assist voluntary youth organisations to support young people, particularly the most vulnerable as we emerge from the pandemic;

- amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 to end sub-minimum rates of pay for those who have attained the age of 16 and those who are entering their first two years of employment;

- restore the full rate of Jobseeker’s Allowance to all those aged 18-24 years;

- reform the Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) grant scheme, taking into account the real cost of living, with a view to providing meaningful support to students on lower incomes and expand eligibility to more hard pressed students and families to pursue higher education;

- immediately reduce the student contribution charge with the aim of abolishing all third-level, Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) and apprenticeship fees;”