Mr. John McKeon:

We take Senator Moloney's observation and it will certainly be considered within the Department and brought to the Minister's attention.

The Senator referred to a number of anomalies. If she gives me the details on the individual cases, it will help in our consideration of them. With regard to the a person going from community employment to JobBridge and then becoming ill and not having access, it sounds like an anomaly that we need to tackle. I absolutely agree on that.

On the question of people on illness benefit having access to schemes, the illness benefit scheme is meant to be a short-term scheme, primarily for people who are ill and cannot work. That might be more difficult in terms of saying people who are on illness benefit should have access to schemes and services.