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"Mr President, I welcome that the priorities of the Irish Presidency are growth and employment, which are without doubt the greatest challenges facing the EU. As someone who has been campaigning for youth guarantee in Ireland, I also welcome that the proposal will be the main focus of the informal EPSCO meeting in Dublin in February.
We are all familiar with the figures: an EU rate of 23 % for youth unemployment. Ireland’s youth unemployment rate currently stands at 30 %; it is the fifth highest in the EU. We are living the reality of having lost a generation to emigration and long-term unemployment.
Last week in Dublin, President Barroso discussed the youth guarantee at the Citizens’ Dialogue and his commitment was very much welcomed and found to be reassuring among the people who participated in that meeting. But if we are to have a youth guarantee we need real and substantial funding, as Ms Berès has pointed out. We need to show and we need to give a sign of the EU’s resolve and commitment to deal with the matter.
Finally I would just like to ask the Commissioner in relation to the pilot projects: Ballymun in Dublin is one of the applicants and I would like to know the timetable in relation to that."@en1
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