Mr. Karl Milne:

I do not recognise the practice Deputy Brady describes. We seek to empower our clients primarily to develop their job search skills and sustain them. Irrespective of whether they are successful during their 12 months with us or otherwise, we do a large amount of job brokering with clients and the employers with which we have established relationships. We have placed clients in more than 9,000 employers. In many cases, clients who are in work in other organisations, in supervisory management and human resources positions, come back to the service looking for other clients to come and work in their companies. There is a great deal of job brokering and leveraging of existing employer relationships. I do not recognise the practice the Deputy describes.