Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Nobody believes that the 3,000 Gateway positions with local authorities are for any other purpose than to fill the gaps left in local authority services by the consistent underfunding of local authority services. It is cheap, yellow pack labour.

Will the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Humphreys, please answer the questions? How many public sector interns got jobs within the public sector as a result of their internships? Did any get positions in the Department of the Taoiseach? How many interns served with the Department of Social Protection, and did any get jobs in the Department as a result? Was any public sector organisation disbarred from taking on interns due to it not using the scheme properly?

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