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Not only is this this government’s committment to the youth sector so low as to appoint a non-entity to the job, for the first time in its history Fianna Fáil won’t be represented on the NYCI having decided against nominating anyone to the NYCI board at their elections back in
Not only is this this government’s committment to the youth sector so low as to appoint a non-entity to the job, for the first time in its history Fianna Fáil won’t be represented on the NYCI having decided against nominating anyone to the newly elected NYCI board.
At least their upfront in not caring about the sector.
Sorry for the double post. Actually, it is suprising that despite all the governments rhetoric on youth work (and their obvious failures) nobody has picked up on their now lack of interest in the sectory as demonstrated by their inability to nominate ANYONE to the NYCI?
really I never knew that. Have you any more details on that.
The election to the NYCI took place at the end of November. There is a specific panel for youth political groups e.g. trade unionists, youth politicals, USI and USS, which elects two people to the NYCI board. It was always the case that an FFer and an FGer would be nominated and put on the board (it was considered important that the two main parties have a say in the NYCI). For the first time, ever, the FFers did not nominate anyone with only a FG person being nominated and getting on the board. As the other youth political place was not used up, it was given to another voluntary group (I think to an environmental organisation).
The NYCI website http://www.youth.ie has not been updated to reflect this (probably so as not to embarass FF and the possible consequences), but a phone call to their HQ would confirm the above.
I know part of the MoS Education brief is Youth Affairs, but would the NYCI issue be connected to that, or would it be more to do with general party policy, or even Dept of Health & Children?
The NYCI is the state body which represents the vast majority of youth groups in the country. As such they are recognised by the state.
A principle element of the MoS’s brief relates to youth word or informal education, of which the NYCI is the main partner in that process, and the confuit for the government to act with youth groups.
Essentially by not putting a candidate forward, they are telling the primary factor in youth work in the state, that youth work does not matter.
Something like this would be something for a blog like Irish Election to look at - might expose a bit of the government’s hpoycrisy on the subject.
After a few phone calls I can tell you that:
There is no Ogra Fianna Fail representative on the board at present although there are 2 vacancies yet to be filled.
OFF are still working closely with the NYCI as usual and have not changed policy; as far as I’m aware they’re hoping to take one of the vacancies and didn’t put someone forward in the past for no covert or snubbish reason (if they were writing a press release about it, they’d call it a ‘clerical error’ I’d imagine).
Oh, and I still don’t see what this has to do with Haughey; sure his brief says Youth Affairs, but it’s Ogra Fianna Fail that have traditionally nominated a representative to the NYCI board, and you can see how different an entity youth parties tend to be compared to their ‘grown up’ versions by looking at some of the crap that tends to come out of their Ard Fheisanna.
It should be asked why their youth wing has failed to nominate a member to the youth council, but that said they’ve hardly turned their back on the whole thing and will probably nominate someone at the next opportunity.