Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----I will not forget the level of support that I appear to be receiving in the Border counties.

To acknowledge the Deputy's question, we want to avoid a situation where people change from one scheme to another. The Deputy can understand all sorts of reasons why that is impractical, whether it is from Tús to community employment, CE, or CE to JobPath, or whatever else. It is not necessarily good at getting outcomes for the person involved, or good for trying to administer those programmes. We are now allowing people to do exactly what the Deputy suggested on a case-by-case basis in a small number of exceptional cases. Taking up a place on one of the child care CE schemes is very valuable, because the services provided by those child care schemes are very important, and those particular CE schemes have a really good record of moving people on into employment. If there is a particular case, the Deputy is welcome to bring it to the attention of my office.

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