Marie Moloney (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I apologise, as I will have to leave shortly for a vote. I ask the delegates to bear with me as I am not feeling the best today. It is quite possible that my questions were dealt with while I was out of the committee room, in which case I will read the answers in the transcript.

The issue of displacement was touched on before I left the committee room. At a previous Oireachtas committee meeting I discussed at length the fact that I was aware of companies that had full-time employees, took on individuals on JobBridge placements and reduced the full-time employees to part-time workers. The Department gave us a categoric undertaking that no company would be allowed to do this and that if one was found do be doing so, the JobBridge places would be pulled from it. I hope that is the way it is and that it will so continue. I am aware, however, of a number of companies that took on a person on a JobBridge placement and subsequently took on the same person under the JobPlus programme. Although I know that Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett is knocking it-----