Mr. John McKeon:

This falls into the discretionary category. We have set the minimum standards and the minimum service we expect to apply. We have asked bidders to set out the kinds of supports they would offer in excess of that. Nearly all of the bidders, and certainly the two preferred bidders, have offered to give people support with child care, work expenses and clothing expenses related to work to try to help them get back into work. They will do that on a discretionary basis as they see fit. It will be entirely within their gift. That relates to JobPath. We support people separately. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs has introduced a pilot scheme to subsidise child care for people going back to work. I do not have the up-to-date information on that scheme, but it is available.

Senator O'Donnell asked about measurement and publication. We publish the key metrics on a quarterly basis. They are available on our website. I can show the committee a document that we published in hard copy in March. We will publish another one before the end of the year. It will go through the 50 discrete actions and say where we are with each of them. Every quarter, we publish on our website figures setting out the performance in terms of returns to work, progressions to employment, exit rates, interviews held and training referrals, etc. The figures for the second quarter will be published shortly. The reason for the delay is that we have to wait for the CSO to produce the quarterly national household survey report. The report for the end of the second quarter was produced a few weeks ago. We will publish the figures in question pretty soon.