Ms Ellen Brennan:

The Senator was asking about the ineligible referrals. There is some kind of a systems issue in the DSP. It is not the staff as they are working very hard in there, which I know for a fact, but somehow, the referrals system structure needs to be looked at. There are so many eligible people on the live register but the Department does not seem to be able to get these people in order to send them to us. I do not know what the issue is but the Department needs to look at this.

With Tús, we are here and we have a great many jobs available. We could be integrating the young people but we could also be integrating the new immigrants that are coming in all of the time. We have many multicultural community groups. The way to get people integrated into Irish society is by working together.

The Senator was also asking about training budgets. Training is very important to ensure that the quality of the programme develops. Some sort of allocation for that would be greatly welcomed.