Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I take Mr. McKeon's point about CE schemes being State employment, but would we not be better off with people in CE schemes working in the community and providing a valuable service instead of going into an office to be interrogated in a probation officer-type inquiry? Given that they must go through a 12-month process at some cost, would that money not be better spent in the community?