Question 5995 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Perceval Gaillard alerts the Minister to the Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families, responsible for work and employment, about the reduction in State subsidies to the 4 local missions in Reunion. PACEA credits have fallen by 50% since 2022. In 2025, the subsidy to local missions will drop by 6.8%. Reunion Island has an unemployment rate of 16.8% in the fourth quarter of 2024, the highest of all French departments (taking into account the absence of Mayotte in the published figures). The situation is particularly difficult for young people, with the latest figure published for 2023 being 39.3%. According to INSEE, in 2021, in Reunion, 41,000 young people aged 15 to 29 are neither in employment, studies nor training (NEET). They represent 26% of this age group, twice as many as at the national level. Between 15 and 29 years old, young people leave the school system and take their first steps into adult life with the majority of them entering working life. In Reunion, their professional integration is more difficult than elsewhere: only 27% of young people aged 15 to 29 have a job in 2021, compared to 47% on the national average. The share of NEET increases sharply with age. It is naturally very weak at the age of 15 or 16 due to schooling compulsory, then it increases between the ages of 17 and 20, until it concerns a quarter of young people, particularly with those leaving the school system without a diploma, which are more numerous in Reunion than elsewhere. It then continues to grow and peaks between the ages of 24 and 29, with almost one in two young people being NEET. In such a context, the role of local missions is vital. The reduction in resources that the State allocates to the 4 local missions on the island is indecent and potential source of future social unrest in the territory. The MP insists on the importance of maintaining or even strengthening the resources allocated to local missions in Reunion in order to best and sustainably support young Reunion Islanders in their professional and social integration. He wants to know the perspectives on this subject.

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