Youth Council calls for €191 million investment for young jobseekers

James Doorley of the National Youth Council of Ireland, which is calling for a €191 million investment to support young jobseekers. File Picture.

A group representing young people has called for an investment of €191 million in the pending July Jobs Initiative to aid youth employment in the wake of Covid-19.

The call from the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) came in the light of an analysis of figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) showing that just under a quarter of all recipients of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) are aged between 18 and 25.