Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

----- and costly it is to create new employment. The connection between employment and the wage subsidy scheme is very important. It is a good scheme. The time lag in a matter like this has to be minimised. We will lose opportunities. I can envisage a situation in a year’s time where we will be looking back and asking why we did not do this more quickly. This is a very important matter and I encourage Dr. Quinn to get that delivered as quickly as possible with the Department of Education and Skills.

Where there are schemes from which businesses are going to benefit, as in the report we saw yesterday on low pay, the connection between quality employment and supports must be made if we are all going to come out of this together in any kind of decent shape. We must benefit from some of the initiatives that have been taken.