Ulick Burke (Galway East, Fine Gael)

All we are asking is that in the current climate these people are given an incentive to work in terms of access to training so that when the upturn comes and work is available they can return to work. The Minister says that he is going to penalise under this Bill people who are offered work and refuse it. Who will offer them this work? There are people leaving this country who would work at any level despite that they may previously have been in receipt of high salaries, good working conditions and so on. They cannot get work and would sweep the roads if given the opportunity. Is the Minister incentivising them to do so?

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