Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Good man. That is what they get for working with somebody but then the bonus payments obviously kick in when somebody gets a full-time job for 13 weeks, 26 weeks and 52 weeks. That increase is purely down to the success of the project so maybe we should have been more ambitious when we made our Estimates last year that they would be more successful. Also, that is reflected in the fact that the live register numbers are lower than we would have expected and there are 13,000 to 14,000 more people working than I would have expected at this time last year. It is all based on positive outcomes because people are getting jobs and the two agencies that we have employed to help us get people jobs are doing a great job.