Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015
9:00 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
Actually, it is not. Youth unemployment relative to general unemployment is higher. It is about twice the rate of general unemployment, but if one looks, whether across time or across Europe, the rate of youth unemployment has halved from the worst point of the recession. Youth unemployment, at the height, was 33%-----
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