Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

Yes. The forms have been redesigned with the assistance of the ESRI. The pilot project is to ensure, first, the collection of information that is relevant to the purpose of this, which is to help people with education, training, work experience and so forth. The forms have been redesigned and the information is computerised. When we have the full outcome of the pilot project we expect to go live with the scheme. The general sense of the operation of the pilot to date is that the outcomes are quite satisfactory.

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