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

The Deputy will see that if we go to tender next year for the new JobPath. What it does show clearly is that, for the hundreds of thousands of people who have had the experience of going through it, a very large percentage - an enormously successful percentage - with the exception of JobBridge, which people in Deputy Brady's party did not appreciate for a number of years, it has been the most successful activation programme we have ever run in the State. I know the Deputy does not like it and that is fine but it affects tens of thousands of people who have got jobs because of the interaction, assistance and help from the great staff in Turas Nua and Seetec, who are all Irish people by the way in case there is an ideological difficulty there. They are Irish people helping Irish people to get work and they are succeeding, which is great. It is wonderful to see the extra money that is being paid to those companies because it means they are actually being effective, which is what we want to see. If the Deputy does not want to take my word for it, the live register and CSO figures were issued this morning and they are going down. The reason they are going down is because our activation methods are working.