Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein)
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I will finish with that. I do not think that the capacity to deliver the projects, or the will to deliver them with real value for money, is there. I refer to JobPath. The Minister may have been involved in that, or perhaps the Taoiseach was. The Taoiseach was the Minister in charge at the time. I raised JobPath and the waste of money involved in it with him before he was Taoiseach. The Local Employment Service Network, LESN, is publicly funded. The State contracts private companies and pays them €100 million. We will be examining that further in another forum.

We are here to discuss Brexit. On that topic, has the Government formally requested the use of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund? We all agree on one thing. As the Minister said, we are in very exceptional circumstances. The fund could be used to address some of the problems companies will face.