Mr. John McKeon:

On the issue of conditionality and compulsion, the social protection system is wider than jobseeker's payments. The purpose of the social protection system is to provide people with an income when they have a contingency, in other words, when they cannot generate an income. Fundamentally, defining it in its narrowest and most basic sense, that is what the social protection system is for. The conditionality is that someone who cannot find work - this has always been the case - must be looking for it.