Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Many of them are, which shows that they do not need the stick as much as they need the carrot. This is all stick and no carrot. The Minister needs to examine that issue. If she really wants to help to activate people, instead of Departments inflicting punishments on people, she could set up local employment fora and bring in people on social welfare to ask them what she could do for them to help them to get back to work and be trained. If the Department gave people what they asked for and wanted, she would go a lot further in creating jobs.

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