Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a commitment in the programme for Government for the Pathways to Work proposals to target realigning one third of community employment schemes towards labour market activation measures. What is the position on this? There is also a commitment, incidentally, in the Fine Gael election manifesto - a historic document which will no doubt be preserved in the archives in Dublin Castle or someplace - which states on the specific expansion of 5,000 community employment schemes:

This will offer community employment places to people currently on the live register. We will reform community employment to make it more market-orientated with many more placements in private sector businesses. With this aim in mind, we will cut the length of the standard community employment scheme to six months, except for specific progression purposes, and strengthen the programme with regard to job search support.

What has happened to this commitment?

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