Mr. Colin Donnery:

In terms of the types of jobs into which we place people, we have placed almost 19,000 people into jobs in more or less every sector in the economy, from construction to hospitality, which the Deputy mentioned, and from call centres to sales. We also place people into very high-paying jobs. It is not just low-paid people who have been long-term unemployed. In respect of long-term training, we would work with education and training boards, ETBs, for instance, to put people into long-term training. We have what is called a stop the clock measure. People can go into training for up to six months and can then come back to us and work with us further. They may find a job while in that training or they can come back to us and we can work with them for the duration. Ultimately, to get back to precarious jobs, there is no point in us putting people into precarious jobs. We need to sustain people in jobs. That is the way JobPath is set up and that is what we endeavour to do. We try to build on the jobseeker's skills, traits and abilities. Ultimately, the longer jobseekers sustain employment, the better for us. Our own systems show us that the longer we work with people, the longer they stay in jobs.