Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

The point is that there is a budget available to the State for work experience programmes or those kinds of programmes. The real ambition is to try to keep as many people as possible close to the labour market or give them that experience. If somebody is on a scheme for life, it is denying an opportunity to somebody else. There are effectively two different aims to community employment. One is obviously a community service aim but the other is actually to encourage people back to work. It is not to give them employment for life.