Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I accept that. I was talking about effectiveness, about the improvement or lack of improvement, and about what is working and what is not working with programmes like JobsPlus, Tús, Gateway, JobBridge and MOMENTUM and with apprenticeship schemes.

I have no sense of which one is working, which one has been learned from, which one needs to be learned from, which one could be added to and which one is not working. Maybe it is somewhere in the document and I cannot find it.

We have 27 local authorities and we have only 1,000 jobs. I would like to see where are those 1,000 jobs located. The Secretary Ggeneral said they were looking to fill 3,000 places. That is only asking the local authorities to fill 150 jobs each. Which local authority is not stepping up to the mark? Which local authority is? Which local authority is not trying to be creative or advanced in creating jobs? I am not getting any sense of what is working, what is effective, what is not effective or what needs to be improved.

Psychometrics is one thing. I am talking about the actual jobs that people have got and are staying in. Which ones are really useful, working, effective, powerful and improved and which ones are not? It is a general question but I am not getting answers even to those.

It is extraordinary that some of the local authorities did not properly respond to the Gateway scheme. Some of them just ignored it. I would like to know which ones have not responded, which ones have half responded and which ones have fully responded. Maybe it is not for today, but I would like some statistics on that. Real statistics and not psychometrics.