Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

As the JobPath programme is going through private companies, is it intended to survey the users of it? It would be very important to see what their take is on it. The use of sub-contractors by the contractors was mentioned. What does that mean? What is envisaged by that? This is a very big operation that is being given to private people. The scale of it is huge. Who are the people who will be working for these companies? What training will they have? Was that part of the tendering process?

With regard to the people who will be working for the two contractors that have successfully bid, is there any requirement that they would be living in Ireland and that there would be local people who may have worked in recruitment or training getting jobs with the companies themselves? Is anything required in terms of that?