Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

I share with the Deputy my concern about the maladministration of this set of programmes by the previous Administration. I will be honest with the Deputy. It is not a satisfactory situation. I am not sure what precisely we can do at this point in time but we have certainly missed one tide in regard to it and I hope we have not missed the whole tide. I apologise to the workers involved. They have been victims of maladministration by the Department under the previous Administration. It is now our responsibility to try to clear it up. I do not know how much we can clear up but when I do know, I will tell the Deputy.

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