Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Ms Duffy is telling me it is a function of the newness of her Department, essentially. I might be straying outside what we are supposed to be doing today but there is huge frustration with the National Training Fund, NTF. I acknowledge there has been a promise to look at the legislative provisions that surround the NTF but I know from talking to employers that they are very frustrated when they see this money going to the NTF and then not being used. There is also frustration from employees who would like to avail of in-work training and things like that. It does not seem to be working quite in the way we would like it to work. Have we any suggestions of how we can streamline this process? No politician likes to see a big pile of money not being spent. Is there a way we can streamline this process a little better so that it better discharges the function we want it to?