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

I was going to raise some further issues about the public services card and the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS, situation but Senator Higgins has done so. I wish to flag to the Minister that we will have to come back and engage in further discussion on both these issues. In the meantime, I have a specific question. The Minister is aware that as the number of people at work, thankfully, grows, it is more and more difficult for people who are running community employment schemes to get people to involve themselves in such schemes, which have done a lot of very useful work locally. There is a rule that exacerbates this difficulty. If a person is put onto JobPath, he or she is tied up for 12 months and even though he or she might be available for a local community employment scheme, he or she is not entitled to go on it. Some of the local community employment schemes are under threat because they cannot access people like that. Is it the Minister's intention to change that rule?