Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

There are a series of monitoring processes, including the steering committee chaired by Mr. Martin Murphy, CEO of HP, which meets on a regular basis. There is also a stakeholders' group and we take into account the advice of stakeholders, including employers' organisations and trade unions. Internationally, there is recognition that a good quality internship is an opportunity for people who cannot get a job when there are very few jobs available. They cannot get a job because they do not have experience and they cannot get experience because they cannot get a job. The JobBridge was set up to get out of that catch-22. The variety of internships on offer, bearing in mind that Deputy Ó Snodaigh may have thought this applied only to graduates-----

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