David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I understand that, but 15,000 of 190,000 going back to JobPath seems to be a high number. While the companies receive only the initial registration fee, they receive it twice. I am trying to tease this out from the point of view of the companies and what incentives there are for them to make money, because that is their aim. The period of 13 weeks is too low a threshold for the first tranche of money. If 15,000 people have gone through twice and these companies have been paid twice, I see that as a problem. Mr. McKeon might not, and he has given the reasons he does not, but there is an issue from a value-for-money perspective.

A discount rate of 8% is mentioned on page 148 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. Will Mr. McKeon clarify the discount rate? Why were two rates introduced?