Mr. John McKeon:

Both are needed for the foreseeable future but the foreseeable future means the next year or two, until we see what comes out of the pandemic unemployment payment and how many of the people who are now on it end up getting back into work and how many stay unemployed. I need to be a little bit careful here because there are procurement rules we need to honour and respect but we consider the local employment service as a concept part of our core operational capability along with our own directly employed employment officers. To use a term which I suppose has come into public discourse due to the health crisis, we are trying to operate JobPath as our "burst capacity".