Mr. John Conlon:

-----and should not be seen as that. It is a service, provided in good faith by professionals, to help the long-term unemployed return to work. I cannot for the life of me see how people can object to the State providing services that help people return to work. We do our best to ensure that people are placed on CE and Tús schemes, but when we started the JobPath service, there was a large number of long-term unemployed people who were not being activated in any shape or form.