Mr. John McKeon:

In the case of young people with disabilities, the scheme is specifically targeted. The measure of unemployment which is used and which has been used by the European Union and the Department is the ILO, International Labour Organization, measure, which does not include people with disabilities, and that is what we have been particularly asked to deal with. Everybody has an interest in doing what he can to help not just young people but people generally with disabilities back to work. We have a number of schemes and services already in place. Arguably, prior to the introduction of Intreo and things like the youth guarantee, the schemes and services in place for people with disability actually exceeded those in place for people without disabilities. Not many people know about these, even though we try to promote them. There are very attractive employment subsidies for employing somebody with a disability - much more attractive than JobsPlus. There are workplace adaptation grants. We pay for job coaches to sit beside people and mentor them while they go into work. We pay for extra supervisors. All of those schemes are in place. A big part of the challenge is making them known and promoting them to employers.