Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has slammed the Government over its lack of urgency and funding of a Youth Guarantee.<\/p>\n
Crowe was speaking after a Sinn F\u00e9in proposed motion in the D\u00e1il which called on the Government to allocate at least \u20ac400 million to adequately fund a robust Youth Guarantee Scheme.<\/p>\n
Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe scale and depth of youth unemployment is absolutely shocking and causing huge social and economic damage right across this island.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this State 64,700 young people are currently unemployed and the unemployment rate for those under 25 years is almost 30 per cent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that this figure would be much higher if it wasn\u2019t for the mass emigration of our young people with no other real option. UCC\u2019s Emigre report found that over 70 per cent of Irish emigrants are aged in their twenties when they depart.<\/p>\n
\u201cYet the Government and the EU has let this huge crisis continue unabated and showed a severe lack of any urgency in tackling what is one of the biggest problems this country is facing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been consistently raising this issue with the Government for months, in speeches in the D\u00e1il, in the EU Affairs Committee, and on the Foreign Affairs Committee, yet the Government have failed to listen and failed to act.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, while the Government was pouring out empty rhetoric about how it would prioritise tackling youth unemployment, it only provided \u20ac14 million in Budget 2014 for the Youth Guarantee Scheme. Additionally Labour and Fine Gael MEPs recently voted in the EU Parliament, for whatever bizarre reason, against increasing EU funding for youth employment measures.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s long past the time that the Government gets serious and urgently tackles the funding of a Youth Guarantee Scheme, that we believe needs to be funded by about \u20ac400 million. A scheme that would aim to provide all young people with a good quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of becoming unemployed.\u201d<\/p>\n
ENDS<\/p>\n
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