Departmental report on youth unemployment

Summary

Kenny asked whether an alleged departmental report on youth unemployment would feature in the White Paper. The Minister said the report would soon be available and that the newspaper account contained distortions; O’Leary noted that he had commissioned it.

Enda Kenny Mr. Kenny Fine Gael

Will the Minister state if the White Paper will include anything on the alleged report which exists in his Department as published in today's Irish People?

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Joseph Brennan An Ceann Comhairle Fianna Fáil

The Deputy may not quote at Question time.

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Enda Kenny Mr. Kenny Fine Gael

Will the Minister state if the scale of youth unemployment, as alleged to be contained in the report, will be referred to in the White Paper?

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Garrett Fitzgerald Mr. G. Fitzgerald Fine Gael

It is a separate question, but I can tell the Deputy that a copy of that report will be available in the very near future and it will show some distortions in the article to which the Deputy has referred.

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Michael O'Leary Mr. M. O'Leary Labour Party

It will show that the report became available only very recently—

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Garrett Fitzgerald Mr. G. Fitzgerald Fine Gael

There is a history attached to that and there are reasons for it, as the Deputy knows.

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