Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion

2:40 pm

Mr. Paul O'Toole:

Indeed. We undertake comprehensive monitoring on an ongoing basis. We have quarterly reviews of each of the centres and we get a great deal of information from the NLN. We are trying to ensure a process of continuous improvement. We have been working on many of these issues. As to the specific one mentioned by the Deputy, we have worked constructively with the NLN to consider assessments of suitability before people start courses. Instead of accepting someone onto a programme and then finding out that it is not the correct one for him or her, a little bit more could be done up front in the form of an assessment process. We have worked constructively with the NLN and other specialist providers to work on this and improve ratios.

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