James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I know, but we have limited staff who are expert in this area and they can only do so much at one time. However, we hope to have it done very quickly now that the blockage has been cleared.

The Deputy's last question, which was not an unreasonable one, was why we had deferred meeting the educational requirements in terms of qualifications by 12 months. It was because of problems in and concerns about community facilities, many of which depended on community employment schemes, that staff would all have to be let go before they could finish their training. It takes time to complete the training. Rather than create another problem, we thought the safest thing to do was to defer meeting the requirements by 12 months, although we knew we would be criticised for this. It is reasonable at one level but at another it is a matter of practicalities.