Mr. Larry O'Neill:

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown is one concrete example of many such cases around the country. We did not want to bring details of 20 cases with us but we can circulate statistics on these cases after the meeting. There is no doubt that JobPath is having an impact. If 60,000 referrals are removed from the system and transferred to JobPath in one year, it creates a gap in terms of what is available for the other providers. They have their own Intreo services and we are considered a second line service in that structure. Tús is downsizing, which would probably not have been necessary if the 60,000 referrals were available to us. Community employment vacancies are high nationwide and we in the local employment services have not fulfilled all our contracts because we have not received all our referrals.