Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

G4S is one of the biggest companies in the world. It did not get the contract but it was engaged in discussions with the Department with all those who tendered for the contract for JobPath. It is one of the companies in England that delivers the equivalent service of trying to place people. One would question why such a security company is engaged in this. There is also a huge level of abuse by such companies in England, Australia and other countries where they fiddle the figures. We saw the debacle around the Olympics where G4S was supposed to provide security. Most of the people who were taken on were paid low wages and given zero hour contracts and all that type of abuse. In terms of the replication of that in Ireland - we do not know about that yet because while the contract has been granted the full service plan has not been delivered - there are concerns about it, but that is the drift throughout Europe. Such mulitnationals that do not have anything to do with social provision can take on these contracts at a loss because they are so large, but there is a different purpose behind it.