Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection
10:30 am
Ms Fiona Ward:
The Department has an agreement with the ETBs and we engage with them at divisional and area level with regard to identifying suitable programmes for our clients. Currently, we are working with them on our jobseeker's transition, JST, customers because some of the programmes would not be suitable or they may be full-time when our JST customers can only work part-time. We are looking at all that in terms of developing programmes that would be suitable for them. We are starting with the pre-employment programmes.
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