Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy may be aware that a review of how the community employment system operates and facilitates and supports people is currently under way in the Department of Social Protection. If he wants to share his concerns with the Minister, Deputy Burton, I am sure she would be very receptive. The narrow confines of this Bill allow for decisions such as that to be made in the future. It allows more freedom in determining who we support in the future. It was overly restrictive in its first iteration.