Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the issue of Turas Nua and the area the Minister is talking about, I am getting an increasing number of complaints from individuals. It is beginning to reach fairly alarming levels at the moment. I suspect the vast majority of the individuals who approach me did not make a complaint to the Department. Therefore, I think the statistic of 92 complaints out of 51,000 referrals is pretty meaningless. There are quite a lot of complaints. I ask the Minister to have a look at that situation because there are problems there.

I am speaking from my experience on the ground on a weekly basis. There are problems in this area, such as the types of activity mentioned by Deputy Brady. I know that people cannot always have their dream jobs, but people are being put into jobs that they have to travel to get to, the cost of which is leaving them less well off than they would be if they were on social protection benefits. Also, people are being forced to do courses that are inappropriate to their needs. As I said, there are problems developing such that this area needs to be monitored.