Project for young jobseekers leaves EU funds unspent

A pilot project aimed at taking young people off the dole under the EU’s Youth Guarantee scheme will have to return money to Europe after failing to make use of all its funding.

The flagship project, piloted in Ballymun, Dublin, finished in December, leaving as much as a third of its financial allocation unused and raising questions over whether future EU funding may be curtailed as a result.

An evaluation report on the project is to be published this morning and will show that around €100,000 of the €302,000 provided was left untouched.