Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

National Adult Literary Agency: Discussion

1:00 pm

Photo of Brendan  RyanBrendan Ryan (Dublin North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have encountered examples of what Ms Phelan has outlined. Somebody who had been getting in trouble with the Department of Social Protection for failing to participate in a training course came to my clinic to talk to me about it. We contacted the Department, outlined the problem and got him onto a literacy programme. It was probably the short ETB programme, which was probably of no long-term benefit. This is an aspect we could address in terms of trying to provide something at that level in the Department of Social Protection as a response to the PEX profiling. There must be an intensive literacy programme.

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