Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

I hope that the figure will pick up later this year.

The process is being streamlined. People who leave the live register to take on short-term work or FÁS training will have their re-applications to the social welfare system streamlined. This is important because it will free up staff and reduce queues.

I am unaware of facilitators being asked to work one day per week as described. Everyone is on the alert for reasons of fraud control. I will check out whether facilitators were asked to do that specifically.

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