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Labour Youth - Pre-Budget Submission

Issued : Wednesday 2 December, 2009

Currently Ireland has over 100,000 young people who cannot find work and who are not in full-time education. Within this, the rate is a shocking 36.4% of people aged 15- 19, and 23% of those aged 20-24, who are in neither full-time education or employment (CSO Quarterly Household Survey of July 2009).

These figures represent a tripling in youth unemployment since the current Government took power - contributing significantly to decreased tax revenue, decreased spending and an increase in demand
for social welfare payments. The short-sightedness of the Government not to have a long-term vision for the future of young people is indicative of the recession that we are in.