Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There is quite a lot to argue with in terms of the Minister's policy for young, unemployed people. I can stand over our position, which is pro-jobs, and our documents on jobs attest to that. I have supported Intreo and JobsPlus but I do not support the exploitation of workers, nor have I have supported the cut in training grants to young people on community employment, CE, in which the Minister was involved, nor the fact she is supporting Tús, which has no training grants, nor the jobs displacement which happens because of JobBridge.

All we need do is look at the teachers and SNAs who are now being forced into JobBridge. Each and every Government Department is abusing people by putting them into JobBridge. The Garda vetting unit is a case in point. The Minister has also planned to have local authority work done by people on a scheme without proper funding or terms and conditions. The labour movement, not the Labour Party, won those terms and conditions over many years. I am not the one who has any reason to hang my head in shame. It is the Minister, as a Labour Party Minister and somebody who in the past has espoused the virtue of proper terms and conditions in the workplace, who in government is doing the exact opposite.

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