Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

We would all like to see greater activation. It would have been better if the training section was within the Department itself, but that is for another day.

Will the FÁS staff currently based in local FÁS offices now be placed in local social welfare offices? If that is the case, will they retain the status of public servant or will they become civil servants, as they would be in the Department of Social Protection? FÁS staff were supposed to be moved to Birr, but it was hard to move them, so I do not envy the Minister in trying to get them to move to social welfare offices around the country.

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