Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)

According to that with which we have been presented, it relates to all three.

The Minister stated that participants in the skills development and internship programme in the private sector will be disqualified from receiving social welfare payments. They will be paid, in a rather convoluted manner, via moneys channelled through FÁS. The placements relating to this programme will last for between two and 12 months. A person who partakes of this programme will have his or her social welfare payments discontinued when he or she takes up a placement, which might last for three months. As a result of the way in which the Minister's Department is operating at present, when the placement ends the person will be obliged to wait until his or her social welfare payment is reinstated. This does not appear to make any sense.

This matter has not been well thought out and there are no-----

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