Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Minimising Unemployment: Discussion with Department of Social Protection

10:50 am

Mr. T. J. Fleming:

Longford has 55 and Westmeath has 33 people working in the rural social scheme. In working within those quotas, something is possible but it may mean that resources are being moved from existing work to an area of work as suggested by the Deputy. It is certainly not impossible.