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

On the general question of JobBridge, I do not deny there have been some successes; I freely concede that. I acknowledge that some of those schemes operate to the benefit of schools. Nevertheless, there has been some disturbing evidence of abuse by employers of the JobBridge scheme. The scheme is constructed in such a way that the taxpayers are paying these people to work in the private sector. They also work in the public sector, but let us look at the private sector for the moment. A private employer can get the benefit of those people paid for by taxpayers money and yet some private employers have chosen to abuse that and waste taxpayers' money. This is semi-criminal behaviour. Why has the Government consistently refused to publish the names of those employers who have abused the scheme? Why does it continue to protect those fraudsters?

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