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

Quite a large proportion of people currently on disability payments have the capacity to work and that is something we are trying to facilitate. That was the final piece I wanted to touch on. I found the Green Paper to be excellent in many respects but I felt there was not a great deal of detail in it about labour supports. I know Mr. Hession gave an answer to Senator Wall on some of these issues. They will have to be qualitatively different from the labour supports offered to people on jobseekers' payments because of the needs of the person and the ability of the person to interact with work, taking account of the need for responsiveness and flexibility as a person's disability interacts with his or her ability to work. If we got further down the line of developing this proposal, that is something I would need to see more of. Could Mr. Hession give me any further information on where the Department's planning is with regard to that?