Youth Services
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-11
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Michael Moynihan (FF), Cork North-West

It was a pilot event on 21 November. A number of short weeks later, the Department is currently evaluating the event. The Deputy is quite right and on the button that it was extremely successful. A lot of public representatives and community members attended the events and they were very successful. We are looking at how it can be improved. It has to be an annual event because of the benefit it brings to the communities. It also brings out our great resource, namely, young people. With Christmas fairs the length and breadth of the country in recent weekends, many young people have engaged in those. Some people involved in youth organisations have brought the expertise they developed in those organisations and the work they have done to the sales at the events. I have seen young people engaged in communities and it has been a success. We have to build upon it.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-11