Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I am careful but clients have come to me that the system is not careful with them. I refer, for example, to a Syrian man with very poor English, who has attained residency here, has been told to attend a course on medical devices and has to travel from the far side of Blanchardstown to Sandyford every day, three hours each way. He is struggling with the course because his English is poor. How is that putting him at the centre of what all three witnesses are attempting to do? That is penalising that man and if he did not do it, his welfare would be slashed.