Ms Angela Kerins:

We support enterprises and areas that are not doing well in order to protect jobs. It was a difficult move for us, but we were able to save quite a number of those jobs and we have now moved them into a more sustainable situation. We do have a problem. It is a very difficult decision to make. One minute it is being said there should be equal pay for people with disabilities. Our philosophy is they should be paid for doing an equal job, but there is a downside to this also and that comes about if the commercial activity is not doing well and if the business is down. What do we do in that situation? We underpin quite a few jobs within Rehab Enterprises to ensure there are as few job losses as possible during the downturn.