Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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132. To ask the Taoiseach the number of young persons from 18 to 24 years of age who are not in employment, education and training excluding those on the pandemic unemployment payment. [18475/21]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available.

It is not possible to identify the number of young people from 18 to 24 years of age that are not in employment, education and training (NEET) and who are not on the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP). The data on persons classified as NEET are sourced from quarterly CSO survey data while the number of persons in receipt of the PUP are compiled from weekly administrative data sources from the Department of Social Protection. As a result, it is only possible to provide aggregate estimates of the number of persons classified as NEET for a particular quarter and overall levels of PUP recipients on a given week in the same quarter.

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a household survey which provides quarterly statistics on employment and unemployment and is the official source of labour market estimates in the State. The primary classification used for the LFS results is the ILO (International Labour Organisation) labour force classification. The latest quarterly data for Ireland for persons who are not in education, employment and training (NEET) is for Quarter 4 (Q4) 2020 and is sourced from the LFS.

In Q4 2020, the number of persons between 18-24 years of age classified as NEET was 51,400.

At the end of December 2020 (Week 53) 83,308 persons aged between 18 and 24 years whose income from employment has been affected due to COVID-19 were being facilitated through the COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP). The PUP is administered by the Department of Social Protection. Information is not currently available to fully establish the status of those who are currently in receipt of the PUP based on the International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions for employment and unemployment. This information can also be extracted from CSO's online database PxStat.

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