Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)

The national employment and entitlements service, which is due to replace FÁS, will be predominantly the responsibility of the Minister for Social Protection. The programme for Government states that the national employment and entitlements service will integrate all employment and benefit support services into a single delivery unit managed by the Department of Social Protection. It will also provide a new one stop shop, as referred to in the programme for Government, for people searching for employment, seeking advice about their training options or establishing their benefit options. To a very large degree the duties currently carried out by FÁS will be subsumed into that new one stop shop service and, consequently, will be the responsibility of the Minister for Social Protection from now on.

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