Mr. John McKeon:

I am referring to the Safe Pass case in particular.

The provider should provide the funding for the Safe Pass course to the jobseeker. If it does not, I want to know so that we can deal with it.

There is something important to understand about the CE case. Approximately 180,000 people are either long-term unemployed, in a CE scheme or on a training programme for the long-term unemployed. At any point in time, some 60,000 people are on JobPath and some 20,000 are in a CE scheme. Doing the sums, there are roughly 40,000 long-term unemployed people who are not on JobPath, in a CE scheme or on a training programme. They are not getting a service.

We must prioritise and allocate our resources. People who are on JobPath do not have access to a CE scheme because they would effectively be taking up two places. We are trying to ration our resources and ensure that, rather than someone who is on JobPath being in a CE scheme as well, thereby denying one of the-----