To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the total average number of hours worked per week by youth workers in each constituency in each of the past five years.

My Department is unable to provide this information due to the following reasons:

The fragmented nature of groups that utilise both paid or voluntary youth workers;

The large number of independent groups that would hold this information locally, gathered in a variety of methods and detail;

That volunteer unpaid youth workers are unlikely to hold accurate or indeed any records of hours worked as might be expected of paid employees;

That paid youth workers would have a fixed contract with their employer however may work above those hours but are unlikely to be recorded, and;

The extended length of period the information is sought.