Youth plan: €7.12m promised. Nothing spent

THE Government has failed to spend one euro of the €7.12 million promised for the National Youth Work Development Plan launched a year ago today.

Youth plan: €7.12m promised. Nothing spent

"This is an absolute scandal since a large part of this budget was targeted at the 200,000 disadvantaged teenagers nationwide who are most likely to get involved in crime," said Fine Gael's Education spokesman David Stanton.

An overall €37m five-year plan was announced on August 5, 2003, by Junior Education Minister Sile de Valera.

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